U.S. Army Now Hopes To Field LRHW By End Of 2023

Brian Everstine September 19, 2023

A Long-Range Hypersonic Weapon battery.

Credit: Lockheed Martin
The U.S. Army now hopes to field its Long-Range Hypersonic Weapon (LRHW) at the end of the calendar year, a slight delay from its previous deadline of the end of the fiscal year, due to another testing setback. The Army scrubbed a Sept. 6 test launch of the full system, including the booster and...
Brian Everstine

Brian Everstine is the Pentagon Editor for Aviation Week, based in Washington, D.C. Before joining Aviation Week in August 2021, he covered the Pentagon for Air Force Magazine. Brian began covering defense aviation in 2011 as a reporter for Military Times.

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