[Who is John Galt?]

Can it protect a carrier battle group from hypersonic missiles?

Didn't think so...

[noiseman]

Can it protect a carrier battle group from hypersonic missiles?

Forward-deployed VTOL F-35B’s, launched from makeshift sites inside China’s land-based missile range, might be able to, while the carriers and support ships remain beyond their reach (at least beyond the reach of non-orbital missiles).