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How is this going to change the hypersonic missile industry? It seems that the only counter measure to hypersonic missile attacks would lie on destroy them with
by Lucasoato 3y ago
How is this going to change the hypersonic missile industry?
It seems that the only counter measure to hypersonic missile attacks would lie on destroy them with lasers (the only vector that can reliably and accurately go much faster than hypersonic missiles).
If someone develops a technology to shield missiles with air, what else could take down such weapons?
- samus 3y agoI guess it's the same difficulty as with reflective coatings - their efficiencies are far from 100%. Even if they manage to repulse most of the energy, some of it still goes through and roasts the missile. Also, this technology only seems to influence a laser beam passing by, not one about to hit head-on.
- semi-extrinsic 3y agoThe downside of hypersonic missiles is that they are travelling so fast, hitting a stationary object in the air will do significant damage - even raindrops can do damage. So if you detect the incoming hypersonic missile and just fill the sky in front of it with metallic particles, you're good. CSIS calls it "twenty-first century flak".