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U.S. Army to Field First Long Range Hypersonic Weapon Battery This Fall, Wormuth Says

Frank Wolfe

Monday, February 27th, 2023

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U.S. Army to Field First Long Range Hypersonic Weapon Battery This Fall, Wormuth Says

The Navy and Army executed the launch of the Common Hypersonic Glide Body, part of the LRHW, in a flight experiment from the Pacific Missile Range Facility in Kauai, Hawaii in March, 2020 (U.S. Navy Photo)

The U.S. Army plans to field its first Long Range Hypersonic Weapon (LRHW) battery this fall, as LRHW training continues at Joint Base Lewis-McChord (JBLM), Wash., Army Secretary Christine Wormuth said on Feb. 27. "Our first battery of Long Range Hypersonic Weapons is training with their ground equipment at JBLM, and by this fall we will have our first battery of Long Range Hypersonic Weapons, and that element will be part of our first multi-domain task force," she told an…

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