Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
A standard A-10 gun run lasts two to three seconds. Finger on the trigger, a controlled burst of 30mm depleted uranium rounds, then pull off target. That’s what pilots train for. That’s what the manual says. So when video surfaced from Iraq showing...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
Flight trackers lit up over the weekend as a formation of A-10C Thunderbolt IIs — callsign TABOR 71 — crossed the Atlantic toward RAF Lakenheath in England. Behind them, three KC-135 Stratotankers from RAF Mildenhall held station, feeding fuel to the tank-killers on...
Geschichte & Legenden, Im Inneren von MiGFlug, Militärische Luftfahrt
Betritt man das Cockpit einer MiG-21, fällt einem nicht als Erstes die beengte Kabinenhaube oder die Wand aus analogen Instrumenten auf. Es ist die Farbe. Jede Oberfläche – der Rahmen des Instrumentenbretts, die Seitenkonsolen, die Führungsschienen der Kabinenhaube – ist in einem markanten Farbton lackiert ….
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
At 12:50 PM on March 29, four F-35A Lightning II stealth fighters touched down at Misawa Air Base in Aomori Prefecture, northeastern Japan. They taxied to the ramp, engines winding down, canopies opening in the cold northern air. It looked routine. It was anything...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
The first 100 hours of Operation Epic Fury cost approximately $3.7 billion — roughly $891 million per day. A staggering share of that went to a single, maddening problem: shooting down cheap Iranian drones with some of the most expensive aircraft on Earth. The math is...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
On March 25, a Gripen E fighter jet — designation F-39E, serial FAB 4109 — rolled out of Embraer’s facility in Gavião Peixoto, São Paulo state. It looks identical to every other Gripen E. But this one was built in Brazil, not Sweden. And that changes everything....
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
On March 25, a U.S. Navy F/A-18E/F Super Hornet screamed low over the Iranian port city of Chabahar, its M61A2 Vulcan cannon spitting 20mm rounds at targets near the Imam Ali IRGC Naval Base. Seconds later, a shoulder-fired missile streaked upward and detonated just...
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