Can the US defend against hypersonic missiles?

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Hypersonic missiles are proliferating. In the last several years, Russia added its Tsirkon missile and China added 2 or possibly 3 such system types to their inventories. This video explores those hypersonic missile threats in existence today as well as US defenses against those.

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[Binkov]

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[FireBeam]

I think an important factor missing from this video is the sharks with lasers.

[anonymous-gotq]

The honest answer is we don’t know if the us can defend against these weapons or not that would be highly classified information so everyone here is guessing that’s the reality of the situation

[hitmusicworldwide]

The Minuteman missiles have been doing mach 23 since the '60s I believe

[tgsgardenmaintenance]

Same old story, someone developes a weapon and the apponant developes a weapon to counter it! Imagine if we put this much effort into peace and helping each other?

[renaissancenovice]

I imagine that lasers would theoretically be the defense choice against hypersonics. I wonder what's going on at DARPA..

[thealonewarrior]

But can we defend against hyperinflation?

[EC-dzbq]

"The US can’t defend against hypersonic missiles." (Officially).

[patrickcloutier]

Perhaps laser and other energy-directed weapons are the answer to hypersonic missile attacks. The lethal end of a laser weapon travels at light speed, more than sufficient to counter the speed of a hypersonic missile. If America is emphasizing development of laser and particle weapons for air and missile defense, then China and Russia may find that they have backed the wrong horse in the Research and Development contest.

[thomaszhang]

11:26 one minor correction: the waveriders don’t skid over thin atmosphere. It skids over the shockwave formed by it pushed the air molecule in front of it faster than the air molecule can push the next air molecule in front.

This compression generates a shock wave. By modifying the shape of the waverider that mitigates shockwave from forming at the top and amplifies the shockwave forming at the bottom of the warhead, the waverider can ride on top of the wave and glide.

[marvingulanes]

What we need to not forget is that the figures statedby both china and russia regarding their hypersonic missiles are on paper specs which they have known to over exaggerate

[anonymous-gotq]

Nobody knows if the us can or can’t defend against this because that information either way would be classified.

[jdogdarkness]

Well Patriot has decided this rather definitively. 7/7 on Kinzhal intercepts. *_And that's w/ last gen PRE 9/11 interceptor.(PAC-3-CRI)_*

[gerrya]

I dont think handfull of hypersonics matter if you have the capability to send 1000s of cruise missiles back for every 1 they shoot at you. At this point sending 1 100million$ missile is not better than sending 20+ cruise missiles for same price.

[jamesoswald]

The calculus is the same as it has been for 50+ years - mutually assured destruction. Yes, the U.S. can't stop hypersonics, but Russia and China can't stop ICBMs either.

[krusecontrol]

"Hypersonic missiles aren't as bad as they are or they're just propaganda tools"

Well that's the difference between you're right and new york and los angeles no longer exist

[leekh]

The hypersonic nuclear missiles is undefendable.

[sarp]

US currently have no technology to defend against hypersonic missiles.

[HTV-_Hypersonic_Glide_Vehicle]

People in the comments seem to be really ignorant about hypersonic missiles/weaponry, M.A.D. and who has them, and the difference between what hypersonic cruise missiles vs ICBM's are used for.

[Rocinante]

Great video, one thing i had in mind but i didn't see you mention it in your video binkov, actually TAAD do a maneuver call Energy management steering maneuver that helped the interceptor to reach a lower altitude. Considering this capability i think TAAD will have some chances!