Was Dark Eagle one Factor in Putins Decision to Invade Ukraine?
Less than one year after President Donald Trump informally announced that the United States would withdraw from the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty, the State Department announced on Aug. 2 that the move was officially complete.
Signed in 1987, the INF Treaty led to the elimination of 2,692 U.S. and Soviet nuclear and conventional ground-launched ballistic and cruise missiles with ranges between 500 and 5,500 kilometers.
https://www.armscontrol.org/act/2019-09/news/us-completes-inf-treaty-withdrawal
11-11-21
THE United StatesĀ reactivated a nuclear unit in Germany for the first time since the Cold War and is armed with "Dark Eagle" long-range hypersonic missiles.
When fully developed and deployed the rockets will be capable of travelling 4,000mph and could blitz Russia in just 21 minutes and 30 seconds
The 56th Artillery Command, based in the Western District of Mainz-Kastel, was officially recommissioned by the US Army this week during a ceremony.
The Army expects the weapon to be ready by 2023
Dark Eagle, would have been banned under the now-defunct Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty, which collapsed in 2019.