We speak of hypersonic flight when we approach or exceed Mach 5. At this speed, the heat is such that the ionized air forms a plasma around the vehicle. To put it simply, you're flying in the middle of a white hot blowtorch.
This dramatically alters flight characteristics. Some prototypes approach or exceed mach 20. At this speed you're closer to a meteorite burning up in the atmosphere than to any form of aircraft.
In a conventional ramjet, you basically have some static/static-ish structures in your inlet that uh.... "rams" into the air. This entire structure slows down the supersonic airflow to subsonic speed, and causes the pressure/temperature of the air to rise to allow for combustion.
The problem is that ramjets become less and less efficient and feasible as Mach number increases, and around Mach 6 (so technically past the hypersonic boundary), you basically can't push them any harder, and so you need a supersonic ramjet (scramjet).
In a scramjet, you only slow down the airflow to low supersonic speeds (instead of all the way to subsonic), and you feed that compressed supersonic flow into your combustion chamber.
I believe expectation for scramjets in general is that you'd only really get to Mach 10-12 or so, since above that speed rockets start providing more favorable performance.
I don't know at what speed a rocket has to be going, before the kinetic impact of 200Kg of solid metal exceeds the energy of 200Kg of explosives.