“Lots of kinetic damage where it lands.”
Hypersonic missiles have very little value unless they are employed against a high value target that is protected against traditional missiles. An aircraft carrier can defend itself against most attacks except against a hypersonic attack. Buildings or field fortifications or even moving field units are of such low value that the expense of a hypersonic vehicle, most of which cost millions of dollars, are not worth such a vehicle.
What we are looking at is a further attempt to ramp up the you are in danger rhetoric. This move has no strategic value.
“An aircraft carrier can defend itself against most attacks except against a hypersonic attack.”
In general an aircraft carrier is not supposed to defend itself. That’s the job of its escorts.
And target acquisition for a missile that’s making Mach 10 is going to be really interesting and complex. Pardon me if I don’t believe the Russians are able to pull this off. More likely they’d need something in the area of the carrier to provide targeting data to the missile.
And whatever that is it won’t be able to evade the carrier escorts and etc.