The U.S. Army deployed its Dark Eagle hypersonic missile system to Australia

>https://www.stripes.com/branches/army/2025-08-04/dark-eagle-hypersonic-talisman-sabre-18660379.html

>>64083568 (OP)
To attack who? Emus?

neato
>oz also finally got a ballistic missile with prsm; the long range asbm version at that

>>64083674
in case the overseas bugs decide to invade militarily.

>>64083568 (OP)
Curious. How does the Dark Eagle compare to China's hypersonics? >>64083568 (OP)

>DARK EAGLE
lmao who comes up with this corny shit?

>>64086576
Seeing that NASA has a hand Im guessing minute of mouse accuracy

>>64086576
It actually works for starters.

>>64086576
Actually works

>>64086576
It has an unpowered hypersonic glide vehicle which is basically impossible to track and destroy.
Put about 15 of these in the Philippines and see if China still wants to do war.

>>64083674
You have no idea how dangerous emus can be. Those creepy little bastards

>>64086993
how sure can you be that an hypersonic missile will hit an emu?
has anyone conducted nuclear test on the hell beasts?

>>64083674
The great emu war never truly ended.

>>64086581
Okay wise guy, what would you call it? (I'd call it Uncle Sams Super Speedy Exploding Spears)

>>64087255
ALDEEEEEANNNN

>>64083568 (OP)
>wumaos on suicide watch

>>64086576
Going off of paper stats (likely low estimate for the US and exaggerated for China) The Dark Eagle has significantly greater speed and range but is in a slightly higher weight class than its Chinese contemporaries, so pretty good. It get beaten by Chinese HGV-tipped IRBMs but that's to be expected considering that they're much bigger systems.

>>64083568 (OP)
The missiles are not yet operational, just the launchers and radars and shit
The first eight missiles are scheduled to be delivered at the end of FY2025
They cost about 40 million dollars each

>>64087566
>mfw my battlestation is "not yet operational"

>>64083568 (OP)
>ziggermutts
>hypersonic anything
Lol. Lmao. Even.

>>64087582
They're doing their best, really
Dark Eagle is one of the most unsung US procurement success stories of recent times

>64087586
>seething zigger larping with marichka

>>64083674
HAHAHAHAHA EMU WAR HAHHAAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAH

>>64087586
>posting the wrong Marichka
Glavset is useless. No rubles for you.

>>64087587
FLRAA is getting there.

>>64088774
You can read 'Ivan' like 'Juan' here. Pretty cool.

>>64086576
it'd be similar to shorter-ranged df-17 overall; df-17 has a larger glider (bigger warhead), but will probably have less range.

both are generally a step behind the current evolution, as they're unpowered gliders lacking a gimbaled rocket motor; you want a rocket motor to give you maneuverability in space against mid-course interceptors. iranian fattah-2 has this.

>>64087587
prsm would be the unsung one. it's a workable hypersonic aeroballistic missile and they were constrained by dimensions of the launchers..

impressive.

>>64083568 (OP)
An anti-ship version of the Dark Eagle based in Okinawa or Luzon island would make a chink amphibious invasion or naval blockade of Taiwan nearly impossible

>>64088994
not fully. for to hit point targets, the glider will need to slow down to mach ~4 for active radar or other means of targeting to work, and in this case, they're as easy to shoot down as anything else that's easily detectable by radar. gliders are harder to shoot down higher up when they're moving at hypersonic speeds when combined with some maneuvering, along with when they don't need to slow down in terminal to hit area targets with a nuclear warhead.

>>64083568 (OP)
>Hypersonic missile: It's actually just a ballistic missile with a flatter trajectory
Every single time!

>>64089046
it can maneuver. there's no reason to use a glider otherwise.

>>64088994
One Neptune was deployed it got the entire Chink population seething and coping.

>>64088862
I might be wrong but I believe PRSM is not hypersonic MANOEUVRABLE. It's high supersonic manoeuvrable, OR ballistic hypersonic (v2 rocket style).

Even Dark Eagle isn't that manoeuvrable

>>64087566
We did our first missile test in 2017, and nobody knew about it. Bullshit they're not operational.

>>64087586
>America considered hypersonic to be Mach 20
>Thirdie shit holes considered it to be Mach 5
>Oh hey if that's the case we've had hypersonic shit since the 60's
>Thirdies delusional as always.
Enjoy living in Pakistan, habeeb

>>64089600
prsm achieves >mach 5 due to modern propellants and a much lighter warhead over atacms. it likely has some type of terminal maneuver, even if a simple steep dive on target from mid-altitude. it doesn't fly a purely ballistic trajectory (even atacms didn't do that).

since dark eagle has a glider, it'll maneuver by design. there's no point in using one otherwise.

>>64089606
you can't get mach 20 unless you're using an icbm, so that's a rather silly way to define it. and if we do that, then only russia has one deployed with avangard.

>>64089602
Go read the latest reports

>>64089629
>it likely has some type of terminal maneuver, even if a simple steep dive on target from mid-altitude
That's not "manoeuvring" by US military standards. They're talking about shit like S turns to throw off air defence radars and antimissile SAMs, or waypointing to avoid defence nets, and under guidance to track a moving target. PRSM probably can do that sub-mach 5 no problem, but OFFICIALLY not even Dark Eagle can do all that at hypersonic speeds. That's slated for the next upgrade block.

If i were to speculate, I'd say these latest US weapons probably are designed to manoeuvre supersonically towards the target, with an option to pop up and dive at hypersonic speeds at a stationary aimpoint. That's how I'd do it, as an interim capability. But fuck do I know anyway.

>>64086630
most intelligent american

anything that flies from mach 5 and above produces plasma

that shit will light up the entire sky you moron