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America’s Dark Eagle explained, the hypersonic missile quietly shifting global power
The Dark Eagle is America’s first operational long range hypersonic weapon, combining extreme speed, maneuverability, and stealth to strike with virtually no warning. This breakdown explains how it ...
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America’s Indo-Pacific Forces Are Getting a Hypersonic Missile Upgrade
At the end of 2025, the US Army announced that its “Bravo Battery” would host batteries of the Dark Eagle hypersonic missile—replacing the M142 HIMARS it currently operates.
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The USS Zumwalt Is Now Armed with Hypersonic Missiles
All three ships of the Zumwalt class are undergoing significant upgrades, including the replacement of standard 155mm deck ...
One area of concern is the efficiency gap for hypersonic missiles that use ramjets for propulsion. Ramjets are jet engines that effectively have no moving parts. Instead of using turbines to compress ...
The destroyer USS Zumwalt replaced its twin gun systems with new missile tubes for launching hypersonic missiles.
GE and Lockheed Martin have demonstrated a new rotating detonation engine ramjet design in a series of tests that show significant potential for efficiency gains. If developed into a full missile ...
Iran has missiles fast enough to threaten US warships, but not the sensors needed to find them. Against a mobile aircraft ...
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