US Navy offers first look at ‘Blackbeard’ hypersonic cruise missile

<p>The navy issued a $200 million production contract for nearly 500 of the Mach 5 weapons. The US Navy is offering up the first images of its new air-launched hypersonic missile dubbed “Blackbeard”. In footage released on 25 September, two of the all-black weapons are carried by a Boeing F/A-18F Super Hornet, mounted on the…</p> <p>The post <a href="https://www.flightglobal.com/defence/2026/09/us-navy-offers-first-look-at-blackbeard-hypersonic-cruise-missile/">US Navy offers first look at ‘Blackbeard’ hypersonic cruise missile</a> first appeared on <a href="https://www.flightglobal.com">FlightGlobal</a>.</p>