This Is How the U.S. Military Wants to Shoot Down Russian or Chinese Hypersonic Missiles Kill a bull

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This Is How the U.S. Military Wants to Shoot Down Russian or Chinese Hypersonic Missiles
Kill a bullet with a bullet—hypersonic style.

by Michael Peck
Worried by the prospect that hypersonic missiles blazing through American anti-missiles defenses at many times the speed of sound, it's no surprise that the U.S. Missile Defense Agency wants an interceptor rocket that travels at hypersonic speeds (faster than Mach 5).

The MDA is quietly taking a step toward this by putting out a research proposal to develop control systems that will enable interceptors to perform high-G maneuvers at hypersonic speeds.

MDA says it wants ideas for “maximizing maneuverability and minimizing kinetic energy losses to the greatest extent possible while allowing controlled flight in a hypersonic environment.”

Read more at: https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/how-us-military-wants-shoot-down-russian-or-chinese-hypersonic-missiles-31372