January 6, 2021
Can U.S. Missile Defenses Stop Hypersonic Missiles? China Doesn’t Think So
A Chinese newspaper is criticizing the recent successful intercept of a mock nuclear missile by a U.S. Navy destroyer.
by Kris Osborn
Here's What You Need to Remember: These fast-emerging systems are specifically designed to improve space-based meshed networking to track fast-maneuvering enemy missiles, such as ICBMs or even hypersonic missiles at some point in the future. Lastly, the interceptor itself may not need as much of its own tracking to follow the launch and trajectory of a missile fired from a mobile launcher, as the flight path may well be known by space sensors or other methods of detection before ship-based SM-3 IIA fire control is fired.
A Chinese newspaper is criticizing the recent successful intercept of a mock nuclear missile, in this case, a simulated ICBM, by a U.S. Navy destroyer using an SM-3 IIA missile. The Beijing-backed paper alleged that the ship-launched missile defense capability would not prove effective in a “real-war†scenario or have any chance of stopping a maneuvering hypersonic missile.
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/reboot/can-us-missile-defenses-stop-hypersonic-missiles-china-doesn%E2%80%99t-think-so-175834
