Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth recently visited the Army’s Redstone Arsenal in Alabama to get an update on the various Army missile systems. 

Army lieutenant general Francisco Lozano, director of Hypersonic, Directed Energy, Space and Rapid Acquisition, accompanied Hegseth and provided some interesting insights on the progress of one of the most ambitious programs in the US military.   

Designed for the needs of the Army, the Dark Eagle Long Range Hypersonic Weapon (LRHW) is a medium-range surface-to-surface hypersonic missile. The munition consists of two parts: the missile itself and the hypersonic glide body. The Dark Eagle has a reported range of between 1,725 miles and 2,175 miles and a speed that can exceed Mach 5, or nearly 4,000 miles per hour. 

During Hegseth’s visit, Army officials

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