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The U.S. Military Is Freaked: Lasers are No Secret Weapon Against Hypersonic Missiles
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The solution is shotguns with a rate of fire akin to a minigun. If you saturate the air and everything around it in a wall of bullets it's not getting through that.
But it's gonna cost ya.
Against hypersonics, this isn't really a solution.
The missiles are designed to force their way through thousands of pounds of air per second. Adding a few ounces of lead and/or hardened steel in the last few milliseconds before impact won't do much.