US lacks defenses against Iranian hypersonic missiles threatening Persian Gulf carrier operations

What was said

"You put a carrier in the Persian Gulf and it will be subjected to a hypersonic missile barrage, because Iran's got those, and we do not have a defense for hypersonic missiles. So what Trump and Hegseth need to do is destroy every single Iranian missile that exists, and there's thousands of them. And they have more missiles apparently than the United States has. Certainly more drones. They can produce something like 10,000 drones a month."

The United States cannot deploy aircraft carriers in the Persian Gulf due to Iran's hypersonic missile capability for which there is no effective defense system, according to analysis of the ongoing conflict. Iran reportedly possesses more missiles than the US and manufactures 10,000 drones monthly, while US Iron Dome systems prove vulnerable to quantity-based saturation attacks. The revelation exposes fundamental weaknesses in American military readiness against peer adversaries.