Navy Aegis Radar Intercepts Hypersonic Missile Target
Pentagon has demonstrated that the well-known and proven Aegis Combat System is capable of tracking and defending against a hypersonic missile attack.
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Kris Osborn · March 25, 2025
By Kris Osborn, President, Warrior Maven
(Washington DC) In what could be heralded as the beginning of a potential breakthrough, the Pentagon has demonstrated that the well-known and proven Aegis Combat System is capable of tracking and defending against a hypersonic missile attack. The Missile Defense Agency, US Navy and Lockheed Martin used the latest Aegis software to successfully intercept a hypersonic threat in a virtual configuration. Should this technology further mature to operational status, US Navy ship-based missile defense would hit a paradigm-changing breakthrough, given how difficult it is to track and defend against incoming hypersonic weapons. Warrior training programs
The primary challenge with hypersonic weapons is largely a matter of pure speed. While hypersonic projectiles are increasingly being engineered with new forms of guidance and targeting, the weapons simply travel too quickly from one radar aperture of “field of view” to another such that defenses are unable to sustain a continuous target track. This continues to be the fundamental challenges with hypersonic weapons defense, yet key programs are showing promise using Medium and Low Earth Orbit satellite networking and “integrated” tracking technologies to advance new countermeasures.
This new intercept, however, would come from the sea .. something which introduces new layers of great significance to mobile maritime missile defense. A mobile US Navy warship, if connected with satellites and air and ground target tracking nodes, could reposition itself as needed to track the threat curve from improved angles. For instance, a Navy ship capable of hypersonic defense could position itself in range to detect and track enemy “launches” in order to detect them at earlier stages of flight, something which gives commanders and sailors manning defensive systems a broader and more timely window with which to choose a countermeasure.
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