Hi Plantagenet

I had to laugh ""QUASI BALLISTIC HYPERSONIC MISSILES"
Sounds like Dr Evil in an Austin Powers movie.
However you are correct, Anti Shipping Missiles are now very fast and able to jink to a solid degree to obviate CIWS and other defenses.
My point was that these new technologies utilise current ballistic launch systems in a suborbital profile with a "strap on" warhead delivery system. They should not be compared to ICBM systems such as Atlas.
I still stick to the point that I do not believe that any Nation has the ability to reliably defeat an incoming warhead be it ballistic, hypersonic or quasi hypersonic.
In that I agree with the Author to an extent, Panic and Terror.
I'll put it this way, if I put a gun to your head, would you care if it was a shotgun or a howitzer?
I'd argue you would crap yourself either way, and be just as doomed if I pulled either trigger.
The point of the article is to show how the military industry will get a ton of $ to develop a new hammer to smack in the same nail.

Some rather unfunny violent imagery from "ViolentEntropy" on a chat forum.

Enough to concern the police?!

The topic, the weapons in question and under development represent the pinnacle of violence.
To suggest I have made any sort of direct threat to you, or the forum indicates a lack of ability to comprehend comparative narrative that is disappointing.

Plant is correct that ballistic and interceptor missiles have been hypersonic for decades. What Binoy is talking about is the new range of hypersonic cruise missiles.

My view is that while they fill a new niche, they are far from the unstoppable weapons they have been hyped to be.

Firstly nuclear-tipped hypersonic weapons can't compete with multi-warhead ballistic missiles that release up to 100 radar identical decoys.

Secondly, hypersonic cruise missiles are heated by friction with the air up to 2000C which the increasingly agile missiles can either destroy or blind.

Far more dangerous are the subsonic low flying stealthy missiles that also only give little to no warning.