Last week, the United States officially announced a performance improvement plan for the THAAD. We will be improving the radar and fire control of Sadd to integrate not only Sad but also Patriot batteries. The idea is to remove some of the launch pads of the Sadd turret and move them farther to remotely control them.

The combined operation of Sad and Patriot is a pure software upgrade, so there's nothing out of the way of the US troops. However, the plan to move some of the launchers remotely, that is, the deployment of the Sadd launchers, is a sensitive issue outside the US army unit fence. Since Sad is a weapon that has attracted attention not only in domestic politics but also in international politics, the physical movement of the Sadd launchers is prone to controversy.

However, USFK conducted two drills that could only be seen as last year's and last year's Sadd batteries. The US Army has also given the meaning of 'first relocation training to the Korean Peninsula', so it's safe to say that the US military had already trained for deployment before verification. Experts also analyze Lee as "the US military has already trained to move Saddam and will continue to do so."

● Sadd training last year and last year of the 35th Air Defense Artillery Brigade

The official name for the Sadd turret in Seongju, Seongju, Gyeongbuk is the Delta-2 (D-2) turret. A member of the 35th Air Defense Artillery Brigade under the Eighth Army. The 35th Air Defense Brigade is the representative missile interceptor of the USFK. The 35th Air Defense Artillery Brigade trained some of the launch pads of the Seongju Sadd Battalion at the Gyeongbuk Waegwan US military base in December of last year.
The US Army trained with photographs under a press release entitled "D-2 conducts first THAAD missile redistribution exercise on Korean Peninsula" The facts have been disclosed. The US Army officially recognized the movement deployment of the Sadd Launcher.

Last April, the 35th Air Defense Artillery Brigade took out the Sadd Launcher at the US military base in Pyeongtaek, Gyeonggi-do. The 35th Air Defense Brigade trained for a week and said, "They equipped the mock-up with the launch pad and mastered the process just before launch."

The Sadd artillery consisted of six launchers, one radar and one fire control station. In December of last year's Waegwan and last April, Pyeongtaek training was done by moving the radar and control station to Seongju and moving only part of the launch pad during the Sadd turret. It is the US Sadd's performance improvement plan and decision to move and launch the launch pad remotely.

● "It was a test to prove sade performance improvement!"

The US Army officially confirmed in December that it had "tested a missile relocation." Shin Jong-woo, a Principal Analyst for the Korea National Defense Security Forum, also said, "The USFK verified through pre-training before launching the launch pads and improved the remote control performance."

But deploying the Sadd Launcher is not a simple task. The issue is directed to the conditions of the placement and whether to negotiate with the US. The Department of Defense said, "There was no US-ROK consultation on a peacetime deployment, and the US must consult to do it." "We explained that we would only move the launch pad to the exhibition," he added.
Then do you not move in normal times? Common sense cannot be moved without US-Korea consultation. But if you want to place them in a wartime, you will need to train them. You won't be able to keep your launch pad in place for long periods of time, but you can't do it.

So will mobile placement training be the subject of US-ROK consultations? Pentagon officials have a slightly different opinion and generally do not have a clear answer. Former Air Force Commander Lee Yeon-soo said, “We do not think that self-discipline is not a matter for US-Korea consultation to develop the combat capability.”

It's no wonder military training is needed to increase the range of defense by remotely manipulating a part of the launch pad from the Sadd turret during wartime. As long as Saad is on the Korean peninsula.

However, because there are many people at home and abroad who oppose Sad, and there are sovereign issues, it is a volatile issue that not only moves but also trains. It seems that the Department of Defense has chosen strategic ambiguity, as has often been the case, whether the deployment training is at will for the US military or if it requires a certain level of dialogue.