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Originally Posted by hello
How about the ABL-1 Airborne Lasers potential capability to stop it? No matter how fast it goes, nothing's faster than light.
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Not operational yet, and its designed to intercept very close to the launch point by burning a hole in the missile and letting the fuel escape, perhaps even blowing it up.
It would be good against primitive launches from North Korea or Iran, and perhaps against China's DF-5.
Perhaps it could be adapted to melt a warhead in re-entry but the primary concern with building a specifically anti-Russian ABM system is the considerable quantity of missiles they still have.
I do find the Russian proclamation that the Topol-M can defeat "any" American ABM system supremely arrogant, though.