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Complex Air Defense
Countering the Hypersonic Missile Threat
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2022
Summary
In the past five years, Russia, China, and others have accelerated their development of hypersonic missiles to threaten U.S. forces in the homeland and abroad. The current Ballistic Missile Defense System, largely equipped to contend with legacy ballistic missile threats, must be adapted to this challenge. The same characteristics that make hypersonic missiles attractive may also hold the key to defeating them. This CSIS report argues how a new hypersonic defense architecture should exploit hypersonic weapons’ unique vulnerabilities and employ new capabilities, such as a space sensor layer, to secure critical nodes. These changes are not only necessary to mitigate the hypersonic threat but to defeat an emerging generation of maneuvering missiles and aerial threats.
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Edition
1/2022
Copyright Year
2022
ISBN-Print
978-1-5381-4053-6
ISBN-Online
978-1-5381-4054-3
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
62
Product Type
Monograph
Table of contents
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Contents No access
List of Figures No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 2
Findings No access Pages 3 - 4
Taxonomy Blurring into Spectrum No access
Vulnerabilities of Hypersonic Flight No access
Defense Is Possible No access
Space Sensors No access
Interceptor Development No access
Command and Control No access
Budget Outlook No access
Encouraging Maneuver No access
Mobility and Distribution No access
Area-Wide Effects No access
Twenty-First Century Flak No access
Directed Energy No access
Modular Payloads No access
Preferential Defense No access
Passive Defense and Deception No access
Missile Defeat No access
Data, Doctrine, and Organization No access
6 International Cooperation and the Industrial Base No access Pages 45 - 47
Conclusion: A Difficult but Tractable Problem No access Pages 48 - 49
