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The Missile Defense Agency wants to double the range of the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense system's guided missile in a gambit to bulk up the interceptor -- originally designed to defend against short- and medium-range ballistic missiles -- to foil intercontinental rockets and defend the U.S. homeland against North Korean threats. On April 30, MDA unveiled new details to fold THAAD into a new homeland missile defense architecture by creating an extended-range variant. That move -- if successful --
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