Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
On the afternoon of 7 July 1946, Howard Hughes was seventy-five minutes into the first official flight of his new reconnaissance aircraft when the right side of it stopped cooperating. Every instrument said the engine was fine. It was. What had failed was one half of...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
It sat on the ground at twenty-two degrees nose-up, which meant the pilot could not see forward at all. To take off and land he looked down through windows cut into the floor at his feet. The Vought V-173 was a flat disc with two enormous propellers on the front and...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
The Germans had radar too. Theirs was arguably better — Freya operated on a shorter wavelength, used a smaller steerable antenna, and gave sharper resolution than anything the British had strung along their coastline. It did the Luftwaffe no good whatsoever, because...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
At 02:19 on 21 November 1970, an American helicopter deliberately flew itself into the trees inside a North Vietnamese prison camp twenty-three miles from Hanoi. Its rotor blades chewed through forty-foot foliage and it came down hard in a courtyard roughly the size...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
On the evening of 14 October 1973, a C-5A Galaxy touched down at Lod airport outside Tel Aviv carrying 97 tons of 105 mm howitzer shells. Roughly a hundred miles to the south-west, the largest tank battle since Kursk was being fought, and the Israeli army was running...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
Walk the halls at Farnborough this week and you will trip over robot aeroplanes. Anduril unveiled a tiltrotor on Monday morning. BAE and Lockheed unveiled a jammer an hour or two later. Boeing parked an Australian one on the static line. General Atomics brought its...
Luftfahrtwelt, Militärische Luftfahrt
Eine AIM-120 AMRAAM kostet etwa eine Million Dollar. Eine AIM-9X Sidewinder kostet rund 1.450.000 TP4T. Eine Einweg-Angriffsdrohne vom Typ Shahed kostet schätzungsweise 1.200.000 bis 1.500.000 TP4T, und der Iran und seine Partner können sie schneller bauen, als irgendjemand sie abschießen kann.
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
Die Farnborough Airshow findet seit 1948 statt. Die Boeing MQ-28 Ghost Bat absolvierte ihren Erstflug 2021. Am Montag trafen die beiden endlich aufeinander. Australiens unbemanntes Kampfflugzeug feierte am Eröffnungstag der Flugschau sein Debüt in Farnborough – als statische Ausstellung im US-amerikanischen Department of Aircraft.
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
Die Drohne war bereits abgeschossen worden. Genau dieses Detail unterscheidet diesen Verlust von den anderen. Am Samstag kam im Nordirak ein US-Soldat bei der kontrollierten Sprengung von Blindgängern ums Leben, die von einem abgeschossenen iranischen Kampfflugzeug geborgen worden waren.
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
Most combat aircraft announced at airshows are defined by what they carry. Israel Aerospace Industries spent Monday introducing one defined by what it broadcasts. ELLYON has no bomb bay and no missile rails. Its weapon is a wideband electronically scanned jammer, and...
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