Sustained hypersonic speed does not remove the geometry of maneuver because a very fast weapon needs a large turning radius. Some weapons described as hypersonic shed speed or behave differently near the target, so the label alone does not define the terminal problem. A large capital ship would be treated as a battle-group-scale target and could draw a correspondingly large salvo. Every scarce missile assigned to it is then unavailable for the carrier group or another objective. Armor and layered defense are valuable when they increase the number of weapons needed for a reliable kill, even if they cannot guarantee survival. The design's strategic effect is to impose target-allocation cost and uncertainty rather than promise invulnerability.
Notable Point · 2:49:30-2:52:49
Hypersonic attacks still impose maneuver and salvo choices
A survivable capital ship forces an attacker to spend scarce missiles and accept targeting tradeoffs even when no defense guarantees immunity.