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New Delhi: The Israel Iran war has made the whole world understand the need for air defense. The Iron Dome air defense system saved Israel from attacks by Hamas, Hezbollah and Iran. As long as attacks were being made by rockets and normal missiles, not a single projectile caused damage inside Israel. But as soon as the number of attacks by hypersonic and ballistic missiles increased in these attacks, the Israeli Iron Dome, Arrow and other systems are having to work hard. For the first time in October last year, Iran fired around 200 ballistic and hypersonic missiles. Now the question arises whether any country has any answer to hypersonic missile attack or not.
It is very difficult to track a hypersonic missile, which flies at its lowest speed of 5 Mach or 6174 kmh in the atmosphere, and then launch an air defense missile against it.
Iran's hypersonic missiles caused massive destruction at many places in Israel. Hypersonic missile is one of the most the most lethal weapons in today's era because it is very difficult to detect it and then engage it. The slowest hypersonic missile is of 5 Mach, which if we try to understand in kilometers, it can cover a distance of about 6173 kilometers in an hour. The aerial distance between Israel and Iran is close to 2000 kilometers. It travels 5 times faster than the speed of sound and the maximum speed can be up to 10 Mach.
A faster high-hypersonic interceptor missile whose speed is around 10 to 25 Mach or a hypersonic air defence system is required to intercept a hypersonic missile. Currently, no country in the world has such an interceptor.
Ballistic missiles are of different ranges. After launch, it reaches space and then according to the parabolic principle of physics, it enters the atmosphere and rains down on its target. When it comes down from space, its speed is 25 Mach or 30870 kmh which is high hypersonic speed. It is almost impossible to stop them.
When a ballistic missile comes down, it falls down due to the effect of gravity. At this time, none of its rocket motor engines are in action to manoeuvre it. Currently, Israel has systems to stop only the ballistic missiles which are very effective against short range rockets, drones and missiles. For short and medium range ballistic and cruise missiles, it has anti-ballistic interceptors like David's Sling, Arrow-2 and Arrow-3. Apart from this, last year America has given them Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) System.
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