Hypersonic weapons like Russia’s Oreshnik missile present a formidable challenge to existing missile defense systems. However, defenses capable of intercepting them do exist.

Days after staging their largest ever drone attack on Kyiv, Russia has closed airspace for three days around a testing site for its ‘unstoppable’ hypersonic ballistic Oreshnik missile. Moscow issued a notice to airmen and shut the airspace ‘from ground level to unlimited altitude’ from 4am today until 8pm on November 30.

Russian Deputy Anatoly Wasserman claims that Vladimir Putin has a secret weapon that remains unknown to the public. According to this Russian propagandist, the new Oreshnik missile, launched on November 21st at the Ukrainian Dnieper,