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Weapons of war are launching from Cape Canaveral for the first time since 1988

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The Army 's Long-Range Hypersonic Weapon fired out of a canister on a road-mobile trailer shortly after sunrise on Florida 's Space Coast .

The missile is poised to become the first ground-based hypersonic weapon fielded by the US military.

The launch and similar one in December are the first tests of land-based offensive weapons at Cape Canaveral since 1988 .

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