The first live-fire test took place on Jun. 28, in what the DoD also described as an “end-to-end flight test” of the hypersonic missile from the Pacific Missile Range in Kauai, Hawaii. “The test ...

A Common Hypersonic Glide Body launches from Pacific Missile Range Facility, Kauai, Hawaii, during a DOD flight experiment in March 2020. (U.S. Navy) The U.S. Army is aiming for one more major test of ...

Problems with the launcher and launch sequence of the new Long Range Hypersonic Weapon System will keep the U.S. Army from fielding its first LRHW battery until fiscal 2025, a government watchdog said ...

The delivery of the first prototype hypersonic hardware to soldiers of the 5th Battalion, 3rd Field Artillery Regiment, 17th Field Artillery Brigade is completed Oct. 7, 2021, with a ceremony at Joint ...

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 ...

April 24 (UPI) --The United States Army announced Thursday that it will call its new long-range hypersonic weapon "Dark Eagle." Dark Eagle is intended to be a quick-response, strategic-attack weapon ...

REDSTONE ARSENAL, Ala. – The U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command Technical Center’s Aerophysics Research Facility, or ARF, fired a successful hypersonic shot Dec. 11 to test its new rainfield ...

NORTHERN TERRITORY, Australia – In a historic milestone, the 3rd Multi-Domain Task Force (3MDTF) deployed a Long-Range Hypersonic Weapon (LRHW) system outside of the continental United States for the ...

The service successfully employed its Multi-Domain Task Force force package for over 72 hours, showcasing the LRHW’s ‘digital kill chain’. The US Army revealed last week that the 1st MDTF ...

Canada disclosed in June plans to spend nearly C$40 billion ($29.4 billion) over 20 years to enhance defence of its sprawling Arctic region, citing threats including those from “autocratic regimes”.

Hypersonic developer Stratolaunch has received a substantial US government contract to expand testing of its reusable Talon-A prototype, including testing related to missile-defence initiatives. The ...