Hypersonic Missile Defense Hits Overdrive

Video Above: Is This the Beginning of an Arms Race?

*Top Warrior Maven Story of 2021. Republished for viewer interest.

By Kris Osborn – President & Editor-In-Chief, Warrior Maven

Is the seemingly impossible actually impossible? This kind of paradoxical thinking might explain some of the current conceptual and design work now informing new innovations related to actually “tracking,” “stopping,” “countering,” destroying” and ultimately “defending” hypersonic missile attacks.

The question continues to be a pressing focus for the Pentagon which continues ambitious science & technology programs, advanced research and nearer term conceptual and design efforts to attempt what some might regard as seemingly impossible. 

Hypersonic Weapons

Clearly any salvo of incoming hypersonic weapons, which could be described as a kind of hypersonic “bolt out of the blue,” would overwhelm defenses. This is part of why the military services are moving quickly to engineer and deploy “offensive” hypersonic weapons to ensure a precise, large-scale and effective counterattack as a deterrence method. 

However, this does not mean there are not clear and fast-progressing efforts to integrate “offense and defense” into a combined sensing, weapons and intercept strategy intended to thwart, derail or simply stop a hypersonic attack.