The U.S. Army and Navy recently completed a flight test of a conventional hypersonic missile at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, according to the Department of Defense (DOD).

A collaboration between the Army’s Rapid Capabilities and Critical Technologies Office and the Navy’s Strategic Systems Programs, the test was the second successful end-to-end flight test of the All Up Round (AUR) this year and the first live-fire event for the Long-Range Hypersonic Weapon system – also known as Dark Eagle – using a battery operations center and a transporter erector launcher.

“This test builds on several flight tests in which the Common Hypersonic Glide Body achieved hypersonic speed at target distances and demonstrates that we can put this capability in the hands of the warfighter,” Secretary of the Army Christine Wormuth said in a statement.

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