China, Russia Vs US Hypersonic War BEGINS? Trump’s ‘Dark Eagle’ Hypersonic Weapon To OBLITERATE Iran

Russia has one. China has one. For years, America didn't — and the world noticed. But according to Bloomberg, that gap is about to close. CENTCOM has formally requested the deployment of America's first-ever operational hypersonic missile to the Middle East. The target in mind? Iran. The weapon's name is Dark Eagle. And if it goes — nothing in Iran's arsenal can stop it. The Long-Range Hypersonic Weapon — officially the LRHW, nicknamed Dark Eagle — is a ground-launched boost-glide system. Here's what that means in plain English. A rocket booster fires it into the upper atmosphere. Then a glide vehicle — the Common Hypersonic Glide Body — detaches and essentially surfs the edge of space at over Mach 5. That's more than five times the speed of sound. At that velocity, it can travel roughly 1,700 miles — close to 2,800 kilometres — and it maneuvers as it goes, making its flight path almost impossible to predict. There is no surface-to-air missile system on Earth that can reliably intercept something moving that fast, that unpredictably, at that altitude. That's the entire point.