you don't even need lasers to shoot them down. They won't be able to jink very well, so a scatter-shot shotgun type of defense system would work very well. The

you don't even need lasers to shoot them down. They won't be able to jink very well, so a scatter-shot shotgun type of defense system would work very well. The real key will be to have a point-defense system with look-down shoot-down capability that can be deployed at enough distance from the protected asset to ensure that even a detonation of a nuclear hypersonic missile would cause minimal to no damage.