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I take it these are fairly power hungry weapon systems, maybe not as much as the now seemingly abandoned rail gun weapon. I worry that the US is continuing to pursue systems which are obsolete in the era of hypersonic attack weapons. The Chinese carrier killer is a good example of something the US cannot stop with these systems, there is simply not enough time available to track, target, and bring a weapon to bear, on a fairly short range hypersonic missle, especially where multiple attacking weapons maybe clogging up defense system capabilities at the same time. The only defense against guided hypersonic weapons may be directional EMP weapons, but such a thing does not seem to exist at this time. Ironically just such a a weapon was imagined in one of the old Bond movies.Of course EMP might well take out the defenders attack options as well.
In my opinion. Hopefully we never find out.
Last edited by glend; 25-05-2020 at 09:09 AM.
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