Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
For two years the jets sat in a hangar at Eglin Air Force Base while engineers tore into their airframes and taught them to think. This week one of them finally flew — and for stretches of that flight, no human was flying it.The U.S. Air Force and DARPA have put...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
Am Nachmittag des 12. September 1943 schrammte eine Reihe von klapprigen Sperrholzgleitern auf ein mit Felsbrocken übersätes Plateau hoch oben im italienischen Apennin, direkt vor einem Skihotel auf einem Berggipfel. Aus ihnen strömten deutsche Fallschirmjäger und SS-Kommandos. Innerhalb weniger Minuten….
Luftfahrtwelt, Geschichte & Legenden
At 27,000 feet over Germany, the air was minus 60 degrees and Charlie Brown’s bomber was dying. Half its engines were gone or failing. The nose was blown open to the wind. The tail gunner was dead, other crewmen were bleeding on the freezing deck, and the young pilot...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
Somewhere over the Mojave Desert this month, an aircraft with no pilot, no ejection seat and no name stenciled under a canopy did something no American drone had ever done. It fired an air-to-air missile at a target. The jet was Anduril’s YFQ-44A Fury. The weapon was...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
A carrier is only as capable as the people who work its deck. On 14 July 2026, the People’s Liberation Army Navy released imagery that made this point plainly: J-15-family fighters running full-cycle takeoff and landing training on land, methodically expanding the...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
South Korea just made its most battle-tested fighter a great deal harder to shoot down — and it did so not with a shiny new jet, but with a box of very clever electronics bolted deep inside the ones it already flies. On 13 July 2026, BAE Systems confirmed a contract...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
For two decades, the taxpayers who foot the bill for the most expensive weapon in human history got one honest annual accounting of it: the Government Accountability Office’s yearly review of the F-35. This year, the Pentagon locked it in a drawer. The GAO confirmed...
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