If the new missiles cheeper and requires less manpower to maintain its a win. Neither can be defended on a large scale tho. To sneak in close you can't go mach.
The whole point of point defense tho is its only defending a point. And is automated.. so its turned on and left on until "mission accomplished". No human interaction necessary at that point. I feel like u could pretty much track, and instantly destroy anything moving fast enough through atmo. Which will be easy for a point defense system to see. U can't be stealthy at mach speeds.
Lazers do exist and are producable and deployable in sufficient quantities. They can target and destroy normal ballistic shells midflight. This has been reliably done.
Between 910 and 1,070 m/s (3,000–3,500 ft/s)
It's likely that the missile specs may be overblown and puffed up some. So idk.
That's 5626.64 feet per second at mach 5 which imo can still be easily tracked via infrared and zapped.
So an area of like 50 square kilometers could plausibly be defended with classified weapons that "don't exist".
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