Bangladesh, Dec. 18 -- During a recent visit to Redstone Arsenal in Alabama, American Secretary of War Pete Hegseth and accompanying US Army officials disclosed new details on the Pentagons troubled hypersonic weapon program. Namely, after numerous delays, the US Army appears to be preparing to induct its first operational hypersonic strike system, the so-called “Dark Eagle”. Initially known as the Long-Range Hypersonic Weapon (LRHW), its a ground-based missile armed with a hypersonic boost-glide warhead, more commonly known as the hypersonic glide vehicle (HGV). Due to numerous technological challenges, the LRHW is now at least half a decade late and is essentially a first-generation hypersonic weapon, coming at a time when b...
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