WP: "U.S. Defense Department Moving Part of USFK THAAD Battery to the Middle East"

As war tensions rise among the United States, Israel, and Iran, the United States Department of Defense (DoD) is relocating part of the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system deployed in South Korea to the Middle East, The Financial News reported.
On the 9th (local time), The Washington Post (WP), citing U.S. officials, reported, "The military is also drawing on stockpiles of Patriot interceptor missiles deployed in the Indo-Pacific region and other areas to strengthen defenses against additional Iranian drone and ballistic missile attacks."
THAAD and Patriot interceptor missiles are regarded as state-of-the-art air defense systems.
One official stressed that these steps were "not taken because there is an immediate shortage of weapons in the Middle East." He added that they are "a precautionary measure in case Iran again rapidly escalates its attacks."
According to the DoD, the United States expended weapons worth 5.6 billion dollars (approximately 8.25 trillion won) in the first two days of Iran’s attacks.
Cable News Network (CNN) and other outlets reported that at least one U.S. THAAD radar was destroyed in Iran’s initial counterstrike. The AN/TPY-2 transportable radar of a U.S. THAAD battery deployed at Muwaffaq Salti Air Base in Jordan was assessed to have been destroyed by intense Iranian attacks on the 1st and 2nd of this month.
A THAAD radar is a high-value asset that cost about 500 million dollars (736.3 billion won) per unit under last year’s Missile Defense Agency (MDA) budget. Because it cannot be replaced immediately, the United States is reportedly having to bring in THAAD radars from other regions and redeploy them.
whywani@fnnews.com Hong Chae-wan Reporter