Dark Eagle LRHW: Pentagon Moves Closer to Hypersonic Missile Deployment

The Pentagon conducted a flight test of the long-range hypersonic missile system LRHW Dark Eagle. According to Space Coast Daily, the launch appeared to be successful. The US Department of Defense has not yet released official details about the results. The missile launched on Friday from a US Space Force base at Cape Canaveral, Florida, with local media publishing footage of its flight toward the Atlantic Ocean. Earlier, on March 18, Lieutenant General Frank Lozano, who oversees US Army missile programs, told Bloomberg that the military plans to field the LRHW Dark Eagle within weeks. He described the move as the beginning of operational deployment of the United States' first hypersonic missile system.