Keywords:
Hypersonic Air Defence, Hypersonic Glide Vehicle, Directed Energy Weapons, Kinetic Interceptor
The emergence of hypersonic weapons has outpaced current air defence architectures, exposing critical vulnerabilities in threat detection sensors, interceptors, and command-and-control (C2) structures. This paper presents a strategic and technical re-evaluation of air defence architectures designed to meet this new era of velocity, complexity, and unpredictability.
