THAAD is the Only Defense Against Russia’s Oreshnik Missile
nationalinterest.org
It is believed that the THAAD system is the only capability that the Americans possess that can stop an incoming hypersonic weapons attack. The Pentagon must find a way to scale the production of these systems and deploy them to better defend against Russia’s growing hypersonic weapons threat.
  • geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml
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    2 days ago

    Are you telling me those battle tested Israeli missile systems were not battle tested against an an army with hypersonic missiles but a concentration camp with improvised low tech rockets?

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlOP
      10·
      2 days ago

      I mean if you can intercept a basic pop rocket how much harder can it be to intercept a hypersonic mirv, it’s the same principle really.