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To: SeekAndFind

A hypersonic missile, by its very nature, cannot make sudden turns or course deviations, no matter what the Russians and Chinese try to claim. So, presuming you can detect and track them in time, it seems the easiest and cheapest way to defend against them would be to launch a spread of high-speed defensive missiles with warheads designed to explode and spread a cloud of shrapnel ahead of the incoming hypersonic missile. Rather than the old “hitting a bullet with a bullet” approach, just make them fly through an impenetrable cloud of debris.


7 posted on 06/25/2022 11:17:49 PM PDT by noiseman (The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.)
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To: noiseman

Yeah, like these. ;D

Flak tower
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flak_tower


9 posted on 06/25/2022 11:34:01 PM PDT by familyop ("For they that sleep with dogs, shall rise with fleas" (John Webster, "The White Devil" 1612).)
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To: noiseman

Lasers


10 posted on 06/25/2022 11:39:08 PM PDT by Carthego delenda est
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