1. Nothing is faster than the speed of light - 186,282 miles per second. The hypersonic missiles only travels est a mere 2 miles per sec in dry air.
2. Directed Laser weapons would snuff out any hypersonic missile's thin structure system containing the propulsion system or interfere with the sensitive guidance systems
3. Just to add:- in order to achieve hypersonic speeds & long distances, the missile would have to be made of light weight materials. Any additional protective layers or shielding would only render it moving even more slowly, thus it would be at the mercy of directed energy beams.
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