https://k4i.com/tags/weapons-testing/ Recent content in Weapons Testing on k4i.com Hugo en-us Wed, 08 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://k4i.com/dark-eagles-road-to-operational-readiness-a-testing-history/ Wed, 08 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://k4i.com/dark-eagles-road-to-operational-readiness-a-testing-history/ <p>The flight test record of the Army&rsquo;s Long-Range Hypersonic Weapon — now formally the Dark Eagle — spans nearly five years of failures, cancellations, delays, and, eventually, two successful end-to-end demonstrations in a single calendar year. That arc tells a story about the difficulty of developing hypersonic systems at operational scale, and about what it takes to bring one from prototype to fielding.</p> <p>The Army originally intended three flight tests before fielding the first battery in FY2023. That schedule did not survive contact with the physics involved.</p>