{"id":85520,"date":"2018-12-06T01:22:30","date_gmt":"2018-12-06T09:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/lasers-space-weapons-how-us-might-try-to-counter-invincible-russian-chinese-hypersonic-missiles"},"modified":"2018-12-06T01:22:30","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T09:22:30","slug":"lasers-space-weapons-how-us-might-try-to-counter-invincible-russian-chinese-hypersonic-missiles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/lasers-space-weapons-how-us-might-try-to-counter-invincible-russian-chinese-hypersonic-missiles","title":{"rendered":"Lasers &amp; space weapons? How US might try to counter invincible Russian &amp; Chinese hypersonic missiles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/d1Lgi-lwUho?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The American missile defense system, strategically placed all around the globe, has been the centerpiece of the <em>\u201cdefensive\u201d<\/em> capabilities of Washington for years. The system relies on anti-aircraft missiles, supposed to shoot down incoming hostile projectiles. But the emergence of unconventional weaponry \u2013namely the hypersonic missiles\u2013 has raised demand for new, equally unconventional defense systems.<\/p>\n<p>Apart from hitting an incoming projectile with an intercepting one, the anti-missile research and development in the US revolved around two main ideas \u2013 using lasers and hitting hostile missiles with a kinetic device. The US military-industrial companies have been recycling the two concepts for years, fielding several prototypes that never entered full-scale production.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/445106-us-hypersonic-missile-defence\/\">https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/445106-us-hypersonic-missile-defence\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The American missile defense system, strategically placed all around the globe, has been the centerpiece of the \u201cdefensive\u201d capabilities of Washington for years. The system relies on anti-aircraft missiles, supposed to shoot down incoming hostile projectiles. But the emergence of unconventional weaponry \u2013namely the hypersonic missiles\u2013 has raised demand for new, equally unconventional defense systems. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,8,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military","category-space","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85520\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}