Article makes the case for exoatmospheric ballistic missiles as a superior technology based on lack of drag. For intercontinental ranges, the argument probably

Article makes the case for exoatmospheric ballistic missiles as a superior technology based on lack of drag. For intercontinental ranges, the argument probably holds. For short and medium ranges, particularly air-to-ship and ship-to-ship, the advantage of hypersonic trajectories becomes apparent in that there is very little time from launch to impact and very little time for interception / countermeasures. TLDR: This seems to be about boost-glide vehicles, where the real action is in really fast conventional missiles like these https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3M22_Zircon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3M22_Zircon.