In der Geschichte der Kampfflugzeuge erinnert sich fast niemand an den Zweitplatzierten. Der unterlegene Jet erhält, wenn er Glück hat, eine Museumsplakette, der Sieger hingegen die Serienproduktion. Die Northrop YF-17 Cobra bildet die große Ausnahme. Sie verlor – und wurde dann dennoch...
Es gibt große Flugzeuge, und dann gab es die Mriya. Steht man unter einer Boeing 747, fühlt man sich klein. Steht man unter einer An-225, wirkt die 747 plötzlich klein. 33 Jahre lang existierte genau eine dieser Maschinen – ein sechsmotoriger sowjetischer Riese, gebaut für eine einzige….
Share this story On the afternoon of 26 October 2001, Boeing chairman Phil Condit stood with his Joint Strike Fighter chief, Frank Statkus, in front of a television carrying a live feed from the Pentagon. The largest defence contract in history — one stealth fighter...
Share this story In the spring of 1946, in a factory near Pisa that Allied bombers had flattened only months before, an engineer wheeled out a strange little machine — a step-through scooter with a rounded steel body and a small engine tucked by the rear wheel. Enrico...
Share this story Pakistan is on course to fly something no air force outside China has ever operated: a Chinese stealth fighter. The Pakistan Air Force has moved to acquire the Shenyang J-35 — reportedly up to 40 jets — in what would be the first export sale of a...
Share this story Sydney has a new way to reach Asia, and it comes wearing a splash of Malaysian batik on its tail. From 1 July 2026, Batik Air Malaysia flies a daily Airbus A330 between Kuala Lumpur and Sydney — the airline’s fourth city in Australia and a fresh shot...
Share this story In the desert of far-western China, a passing satellite caught something Beijing would much rather keep in the shadows: two enormous stealth flying wings, sitting in the open on a remote airfield — the larger of them nearly as wide as an American B-2...
Share this story There is one aircraft the United States hopes it never has to use for its real job: the plane that would relay the order to launch nuclear missiles from America’s submerged submarines. Its replacement is now running late — and the government watchdog...
Share this story Ten minutes after lifting off from New York on Independence Day, climbing through 15,800 feet, the crew of a NetJets business jet saw something big and silver flash past their windscreen — close enough to report it. Then it was gone. They keyed the...
Share this story Britain has put a number on its future: £298 billion. That is the size of the Defence Investment Plan unveiled at the end of June, the government’s four-year blueprint for rebuilding an armed forces bent on fighting “the wars of today and tomorrow.”...
Share this story A number from a Chinese laboratory has been making the rounds, and it is a striking one: 95 percent. That, according to a computer simulation, is how often a Chengdu J-20 beat an American F-22 Raptor in a fight north of Taiwan. Read a little closer,...
Share this story Seven years after American Airlines walked away from the route, Chicago and Tokyo are about to be joined by a nonstop again — and this time American is flying it with its own metal. Starting 27 March 2027, American will run a daily Boeing 787-9...
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