“Resolute Hunter”: The US Army conducted the first exercises with the Dark Eagle hypersonic missile system

The United States has conducted its first exercise using a new ground-based rocket hypersonic system Dark Eagle, which is being developed to counter China, according to a report from Joint Base Lewis-McChord.

From June 24 to 27, the US Army conducted exercise Resolute Hunter 24-2 (“Resolute Hunter”) with the participation of a battery of the Dark Eagle hypersonic missile system. Reportedly, the Americans were practicing the use of hypersonic missile weapons in modern combat conditions. The chain was worked out: “target detection - target designation - target destruction.” The launches, naturally, were electronic.

The nuance is that the exercises were carried out with a complex that had not yet passed the necessary tests, having failed all three of the last launches. The last attempt to launch a rocket was last fall. The Dark Eagle ground-launched hypersonic missile system, better known as LRHW (Long-Range Hypersonic Weapon), attempted to launch on October 26, 2023, but the test was canceled due to “problems discovered before launch.” So the Americans don’t know at all whether this missile flies.

The Long Range Hypersonic Weapon (LRHW) is a versatile, ground-launched, solid-propellant, medium-range ballistic missile. The missile is equipped with a universal controlled maneuverable hypersonic glide warhead, the Common Hypersonic Glide Body (C-HGB). The missiles with blocks are placed on a two-container installation towed by an Oshkosh M983A4 (8x8) tractor.

The Dark Eagle complex, located in the Asia-Pacific region, is planned to become a “nightmare” for China. During the only successful launch, the missile flew 2775 km, but experts suggest that in reality its range will be from 3 to 4 thousand kilometers, which is enough to guarantee the destruction of military targets on Chinese territory.

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[Enceladus]

The chain was worked out: “target detection - target designation - target destruction.” The launches, naturally, were electronic.

I wanted to eat, I threw it in the microwave, heated it up, and ate it. The start was naturally electronic, since the holobox was empty.

[Emelyanov_Kirill]

!.. Yes, it’s very cool when they puff up and puff up - but the launches, anyway, only come out electronic. I suppose, because the real ones are going down the drain, and nothing else is in sight... In reality, they just have PSIK there, like “hypersonic” :))

[Zaurbek]

The Dark Eagle complex, located in the Asia-Pacific region, is planned to become a “nightmare” for China.


The matter, one way or another, is moving towards bases in South America with IRBMs. Moreover, both China and the Russian Federation will want such bases. And the issue with the RC aircraft needs to be resolved, and it is necessary to establish data exchange between China and the Russian Federation (RC data). One country cannot handle it geographically. The US, EU and NATO bases work for the US.

[alexoff]

It is best to have a base in Panama. Moreover, there will be enough of some rapiers near the canal, which will separate the American fleet into the Atlantic and Pacific. I can imagine how angry the Americans would be...

[tralflot1832]

There are more questions than answers with this American "Black Eagle". The missile violates the INF Treaty, but it doesn't fly. And who knows the history of the INF Treaty, why only 5500 km and not 6,5 or 7,5 - did the hunchback try or earlier, with such a range we only reach part of California from Chukotka, and 6 is already something, Washington is in the crosshairs.

[Zaurbek]

The point is a quick, high-speed strike. Over 5.5tkm and YRS will fly perfectly and quickly.
Now we need BRST with the accuracy of the Iskander OTRK (both conventional and nuclear warheads)

[lukash66]

Electronic start and I can search on the computer for which thread of the toy. I'm a vigorous loaf twenty years ago in Civilization the States were leveled.))

[isv000]

Quote from: lukash66

Electronic start and I can search on the computer for which thread of the toy. I'm a vigorous loaf twenty years ago in Civilization the States were leveled.))

Well, why don’t you like the States so much?!! Maybe you just don’t know how to cook them?

[lukash66]

Maybe I really don’t know how, but I was initially allergic to them. Although my boss is an American, a millionaire, from Tashkent Jews, who went there in the early 90s. He stood up. He called me over, but somehow I didn’t want to. I’m not really drawn to this paradise at all. Needed where was born.))

[isv000]

There was also the opportunity to stay in Europe and the States, some took it. Years have passed and I am grateful to that 23-year-old guy who turned out to be smarter than others and returned home to Russia...

[Nikolaevich_IXI]

But the children of some officials live there and that’s okay, they’re happy with everything

[isv000]

Quote: Vlad-43

Well, hypersound is on the way in the USA, but someone doubted it

On the way - this is said loudly. Even the Houthis said that they already have it, but the Yankees are still trampling on. By the time they cook it up, competitors will already have plenty of everything and with more modern characteristics.

[dauria]

Americans can't make solid-fuel rockets? Hmm. I would say - no one except Americans can make decent solid-fuel rockets.

[nik-mazur]

Quote: Vlad-43

In the USA, hypersound is on the way, but someone doubted it

In the United States, hypersound has been on the rise for the last twenty years. Even under Bush, at the beginning of the 2003s, the concept of a “prompt global strike” was developed, which assumed the ability to strike with non-nuclear weapons at any point on the planet within one hour. In connection with this, the Americans began to make money on the hypersonic topic back in XNUMX as part of the DARPA Falcon program.
There are rumors that there will be real results very soon. But it is not exactly.

[hohohol]

And here is what is interesting:

It is planned that the Dark Eagle complex, located in the Asia-Pacific region, will become a “nightmare” for China, but there is one caveat: the exercises were carried out with a complex that has not yet passed the necessary tests, having failed all three of its last launches. So the Americans don’t know at all whether this missile flies.

Apparently the Chinese should be scared. A curtain.

[borisvt]

..the Dark Eagle complex located in the Asia-Pacific region will become a “nightmare” for China

another argument for starting a China-Taiwan operation in the foreseeable future.
The rocket is still raw, hasn’t been placed yet

[isv000]

The chain was worked out: “target detection - target designation - target destruction.” The launches, naturally, were electronic.

Many people fight well in "shooters", the computer will endure anything, you can even smash the keyboard - it's cheaper...

[nordscout]

If briefly and to the point, then "was there a boy????......" I'm talking about the "Dark Eagle..." Not a flying machine - it's a model... So what talk about some kind of "nightmare" for China.... And, "sawing up" the budget, and further, for this "wonder weapon" - very, very opportune....

[faterdom]

Yes, they are now going to paint the Houthis like nuts with electronic launches, then Iran, then China and the DPRK.
And then the remaining electronic missiles will be sold to the electronic regime in Kyiv.
And then it will be time for Biden to go to bed, and he will turn off the computer.

[Dutchman Michel]

It is planned that the Dark Eagle complex, located in the Asia-Pacific region, will become a “nightmare” for China

In China they just laugh

[SovAr238A]

Quote from nordscout

If briefly and to the point, then "was there a boy????......" I'm talking about the "Dark Eagle..." Not a flying machine - it's a model... So what talk about some kind of "nightmare" for China.... And, "sawing up" the budget, and further, for this "wonder weapon" - very, very opportune....

When in 3 years they have enough hypersonic missiles in their troops, about 5-6, what will you ban?
Or will you continue the story as with Elon Musk: “.... then we’ll talk?”
Isn’t it clear that if they take something seriously, they then do it very seriously...

[molyr]

ban? so how many programs have they seriously closed over the last 5 years?

[Kerensky]

Isn’t it clear that if they take something seriously, they then do it very seriously...

If they don’t do it, their competencies are lost.
And there is no need for fairy tales about robots who will quickly sculpt everything as soon as the “silicon Indians press the button.”
Open any local job portal.....

[Sergei Timofeich]

If Putin had made an electronic launch of Sarmat, the whole world would have laughed, and such news about the Star-Spangled Banner is commonplace, all the mongrels continue to lick the losers...