Scott Kenny
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If you can catch them out of the atmosphere, it's better. They can't maneuver except via very easy to detect RCS thrusters, and maneuvering much out of atmosphere can either mess up their re-entry or make it very difficult to hit the target.Implies it will be a long range large and very powerful and very high Mach missile with the associated necessary big radar and a LEO satellite constellation system for continuous coverage.
Probably. Something like SM3 is exo-atmospheric only, it basically cannot maneuver inside the atmosphere. THAAD or Patriot PAC3MSE can maneuver inside the atmosphere, even if the missiles are actually capable of reaching over 100km up.Would that also imply for intercepting SRAM hypersonic cruise missiles that fly at lower altitude with in the earths atmosphere will require totally different missile system or perhaps rely on THAAD?