Kancelarija za program američke vojske saopštila je da "nastavlja aktivnosti pripreme" za hipersoničnu raketu dugog dometa "mračni orao" i da mora da završi dodatnu obuku i druge aktivnosti održavanja i operativne spremnosti "pre nego što proglasi da je sistem potpuno spreman za upotrebu", prenosi Blumberg.
Rokovi za raspoređivanje hipersonične rakete su već bili odlagani 2023. i 2025. godine.
U julu je general-potpukovnik Frenk Lozano, šef raketnih programa američke vojske, rekao za Blumberg da postoje nedostaci u kvalitetu na proizvodnoj liniji kompanije Lokid Martin i da prihvatanje preostalih raketa iz prve proizvodne serije zavisi od otklanjanja uzroka ovih nedostataka.
$RKLB: Rocket Lab is helping close America’s hypersonic gap. -China has DF-17 -Russia has Avangard -Iran has Fattah This is why the United States government has explicitly identified hypersonic materials and manufacturing as national security constraints. https://t.co/SFWuzNnP4M — Space Investor (@SpaceInvestor_D) July 25, 2026
Sjedinjene Američke Države su potrošile više od 12 milijardi dolara na razvoj hipersoničnog oružja od 2018. godine.
U oktobru 2026. godine, časopis "The War Zone" je objavio da je američko ratno vazduhoplovstvo sprovelo prvo testiranje leta još jedne hipersonične krstareće rakete, HACM (Hypersonic Attack Cruise Missile), i da je planirano da raketa udje u masovnu proizvodnju do 2027. godine.
🚨 AMERICA’S $12 BILLION HYPERSONIC GAP KEEPS GROWING WASHINGTON, UNITED STATES - Army units are already practicing how to move and employ the system, yet the missile itself remains stuck in the final stages of fielding. That shifts the bottleneck away from military doctrine and toward industrial execution. Quality defects on the production line are especially damaging because hypersonic weapons place extreme demands on materials, guidance systems and manufacturing tolerances. The gap is no longer mainly about technology development. The United States has conducted successful tests and built operational units, but converting prototypes into reliable production hardware has proved slower than expected. Meanwhile, competitors gain an advantage not merely from possessing hypersonic weapons, but from accumulating years of operational experience with them. Every additional delay extends that experience gap and leaves Dark Eagle as a capability that exists on paper more fully than in deployed combat service. Writer: Brij — The Content Factory (@tcf_updates) October 15, 2026
"Mračni orao", hipersonično oružje dugog dometa, je kopnena raketa čiji domet prelazi 2.776 kilometara, koja je projektovana da leti brzinom pet puta većom od brzine zvuka i da manevriše kako bi se otežalo njeno presretanje.
