Dark Eagle: The U.S. Army’s Hypersonic Answer to China’s Missile Gap Currently under development for the United States Army is the Long-Range Hypersonic Weapon (LRHW), also known as Dark Eagle.

Epic: The U.S. Army recently completed a successful test of the Long-Range Hypersonic Weapon (LRHW), nicknamed Dark Eagle, which flew in a near-operational configuration over 2,000 miles.

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 ...

The nickname that the Army has given to the missile is Dark Eagle. According to a September report from the Congressional Research Service (CRS), Dark Eagle is a truck-launched system that fires ...