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The U.S. Military Is Freaked: Lasers are No Secret Weapon Against Hypersonic Missiles (nationalinterest.org)
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[–] knightly@hexbear.net 7 points 2 months ago

Nope. Turns out that adding a few ounces of lead or hardened steel to the milliseconds before impact doesn't do much when the missiles are designed to force their way through thousands of pounds of air per second.