In the future, the bad guys never miss. This is what 90% of pop sci-fi gets wrong. Speaking of fast, the Russians now have hypersonic missiles that go roughly

In the future, the bad guys never miss. This is what 90% of pop sci-fi gets wrong. Speaking of fast, the Russians now have hypersonic missiles that go roughly 14,000 miles per hour. That's more than 3 miles a second! If you have a missile defense on board a ship, that means the missile defense has to detect, target and kill that missile in just a few seconds maximum.