Hypersonic weapons like Russia’s Oreshnik missile present a formidable challenge to existing missile defense systems. However, defenses capable of intercepting them do exist.

Days after staging their largest ever drone attack on Kyiv, Russia has closed airspace for three days around a testing site for its ‘unstoppable’ hypersonic ballistic Oreshnik missile. Moscow issued a notice to airmen and shut the airspace ‘from ground level to unlimited altitude’ from 4am today until 8pm on November 30.

Russia's Oreshnik hypersonic missile, with speeds over Mach 5 and mid-flight maneuverability, is deemed unstoppable by current global defense systems. An expert echoes Putin's claim that no existing t