The 12-Second Gap: Why the US Navy is Hijacking Army Missilesz This video explains why the U.S. Navy’s most advanced interceptor fails in the final 12 seconds—and why the Navy is now integrating the Army’s PAC-3 MSE onto its destroyers. It breaks down the physics of terminal-phase interception, why explosive warheads cannot stop a Mach 5 ballistic impact, and how “hit-to-kill” changes the equation from fragmentation to pure kinetic energy. :contentReference[oaicite:0]{index=0} More importantly, it reveals the real problem: not missile performance—but magazine depth, production bottlenecks, and the zero-sum trade-off inside the Mark 41 Vertical Launch System. This is not cooperation. This is battlefield triage.

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