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Conceivably a hypersonic missile could maneuver by slightly tilting it's nose cone, rather than using fins. If fins are to be used they would best be forward, rather than aft. High clock rate computer control what ever control surfaces are used. Triangular cross section, as opposed to...

It has everything to do with the wing-loading [pounds of lift per square foot of wing area]. Jets have relatively much larger wings for their size than missiles, so they can maneuver out of it\s way and the missile can't follow the arc of the aircraft's turn.

Exactly, an interceptor need only release a cloud of dense objects in the hypersonic missile's path, only one of which would destroy the missile. Thus the very speed of the missile would be a weakness leading to it's demise.