… defense because things have changed where you can right now sink a naval vessel, a capital ship, as they used to be called, the battleships, with a single missile that We truly have no defense against [hypersonic missiles]. So I encourage us to continue to develop hypersonic missile capabilities, but we also have to start investing a lot of money in defense for these things. (38:54–39:03)
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Asserts that there is currently no defense against hypersonic missiles.
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