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OK, I see their wishful thinking but our anti-missile-missile system works on radar and it won’t matter.

I put this into the basket of wishful thinking by the chinks. Of course, you know they have already put men on the moon, don’t you? LOL They are much more creative with their science fiction than the ruskies were.

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They do have a point with their beliefs. Speed is certainly a very important factor and our anti-missle tech may or may not be able to compensate for such an increase in terminal velocity.

I'm wondering if they are on the right path as laser weapons utilized during the boost phase would make such a platform ineffective anyways.

I suppose it depends on numbers. If you can get several through the boost phase, Hypersonic terminal velocity vehicles would certainly have a better chance to defeat our current generation of anti-missile defenses, but I would hope that DARPA and the government would be working on upgrades or future defenses would take such capabilities into account.