Problems with the launcher for the U.S. Army's Dark Eagle hypersonic missile are what have caused the scrapping of three live-fire tests of this weapon this year, according to the service's top ...

What You Need to Know: The Long-Range Hypersonic Weapon (LRHW), or "Dark Eagle," is a hypersonic missile system being developed by the U.S. Army to counter China's advantage in intermediate-range ...

The US Army’s first hypersonic battery will have its full load of eight missiles by December, marking a major milestone in the program.

A common hypersonic glide body launches from Pacific Missile Range Facility, Kauai, Hawaii, in 2020, during a Department of Defense flight experiment. The U.S. Navy and U.S. Army jointly executed the ...

Congress has received a new report on the Army’s Long-Range Hypersonic Weapon (LRHW), better known as Dark Eagle. The report from the Congressional Research Service (CRS) comes at a time when the US ...

A Department of Defense hypersonic missile test from Cape Canaveral on Thursday, Dec. 12 sparked questions on social media from unsuspecting locals who witnessed the missile launch. Ahead of ...

A major focus in missile development of the 21st century has been hypersonic research. Hypersonic flight is achieved when an object surpasses Mach 5 (3,836 mph), and getting it right is the Holy Grail ...

Dark Eagle is a medium-range surface-to-surface hypersonic missile that is being developed for the US Army by Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman, with variants for deployment on US Navy ships and ...

The United States conducted a test launch of the U.S. Army's hypersonic missile, also known as the Dark Eagle, in Florida on Friday, capable of traveling over five times the speed of sound. Newsweek ...

WASHINGTON — The Army dubbed its new hypersonic missile the “Dark Eagle,” paying tribute to a U.S. national symbol, as the developing system nears the end of testing. The land-based, truck-launched ...