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This renders the investment into advanced defences - i.e. the ring of fire that NATO has surrounded its enemies with - useless.

At least in the case of Russia.

It also puts the carrier question to rest. Carriers are a policing weapon - during all-out war, hypersonic missiles take them out.

Missile Defense technology just got a boot up the arse. I guess we're going to see freakin' laser beams soon enough.