Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
Share this story Commercial satellite imagery has revealed two hardened structures of an unfamiliar type at China’s most important missile test and training complex, and their geometry does not match anything previously catalogued there. The structures, at the...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
Share this story When we wrote last week that NATO’s next radar jet would be Swedish, the news still wore the modest clothing of a Reuters exclusive. On Tuesday in Ankara, it acquired numbers, signatures and a price tag. Secretary General Mark Rutte confirmed...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
Share this story The sirens came before the sunrise. In Manama’s old quarters and along Kuwait City’s waterfront towers, the same rising wail that Gulf residents have learned by heart this year pulled families out of bed and into stairwells in the small...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
Share this story Six years ago the United States took Turkey’s F-35s away. The jets Ankara had already paid for went into storage in the Arizona desert, Turkish pilots were sent home from Luke Air Force Base, and roughly 100 stealth fighters on order evaporated....
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
Share this story Eighty targets. One night. That is CENTCOM’s answer to Iran shooting at oil tankers again. Overnight into Wednesday, US forces worked their way down a target list across southern Iran: air defense systems, command-and-control networks, coastal...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
Share this story On 23 May 1943, a German fighter ace named Adolf Galland climbed into an aircraft with no propeller. He opened the throttles, felt a shove of thrust unlike anything a piston engine had ever given him, and afterwards reached for the only words that...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
Share this story On a summer day in 1965, workers and fishermen along the Ob River near Novosibirsk heard a scream of jet engines and looked up just in time to see something their minds could barely accept: a MiG-17 fighter, flashing low over the water — and then...
Luftfahrtwelt, Militärische Luftfahrt
Ask which is better, the MiG-29 or the Su-30, and you have already misunderstood the question. They were never meant to compete. They are the two halves of a single idea — the Soviet Union’s deliberate decision to build one small fighter and one big one, each...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
Das wichtigste Dokument in der Geschichte der Tarnkappenflugzeuge wurde weder in Kalifornien noch auf einem geheimen Flugplatz in der Wüste verfasst. Es entstand in Moskau, auf Russisch, von einem sowjetischen Physiker – und die Sowjetunion ließ es ins Ausland gelangen, weil sie die Arbeit für irrelevant hielt.
Luftfahrtwelt, Militärische Luftfahrt
Mit der Zerstörung der An-225 Mriya im Jahr 2022 verlor die Welt ihr größtes Flugzeug. Doch der Westen unterhält nach wie vor einen eigenen Giganten in der Luft – einen, der schon vor den Mondlandungen Panzer, Hubschrauber und Satelliten um den Planeten transportierte und….
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