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by Tyler Durden Wednesday, May 19, 2021 - 11:40 PM The US Army has revealed the official range of its hypersonic boost-glide missile, otherwise known as the Long Range Hypersonic Weapon, or LRHW.  "The Long Range Hypersonic Weapon provides a capability at a distance greater than 2,775 km (1,727 miles)," an Army spokesperson said, according to Breaking Defense. This means the hypersonic missile could be stationed in Guam and surgically bombard the Chinese if they invade Taiwan.  For comparison...

The Army will create new field artillery battalions in its heavy divisions, armed with the new Extended Range Cannon Artillery (ERCA) armored howitzer. Its part of a plan to add new Long-Range Precision Fire weapons at every level of command. By   Sydney J. Freedberg Jr. on May 10, 2021 at 11:35 AM

Vice Chief of Staff of the Army Gen. Joseph Martin spoke Thursday with leaders and experts from several commands and industry partners to learn more about current readiness and modernization

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By   Sydney J. Freedberg Jr. on March 12, 2021 at 12:52 PM Launch of Army-Navy Common-Hypersonic Glide Body (C-HGB) in Hawaii on March 19, 2020. Gen. James McConville By building new Multi-Domain Task Force units armed with long-range missiles, “what we want to do as a service is provide the combatant commander…multiple options,” the Army Chief of Staff, Gen. James McConville, told the Defense Writers Group on Thursday. “A wider base of long-range precision fires… enabled by all ou...

Share Within a decade, cruise missile options for the B-52 will include new versions of the conventional AGM-158 as well as the all-new nuclear Long-Range Standoff missiles and possibly future Hypersonic Attack Cruise Missiles. Credit: U.S. Air Force After successfully fielding only one new cruise missile during the past 30 years, the U.S. Defense Department hopes to multiply that result over the next decade. Two new candidates for a future hypersonic cruise missile are currently in testi...