Luftfahrtwelt, Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
The cargo compartment of a C-5A Galaxy is the size of a small warehouse. On the afternoon of 4 April 1975, the crew at Tan Son Nhut filled the lower deck of one with cardboard boxes, and into the boxes they put babies — two and three to a box, strapped down with...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
The radar worked. That was the strange part. It could see aircraft, track them, and hand the picture to the operators behind it. It simply could not do so reliably, or for long, or against the one category of target the entire programme existed to detect.On 18...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
India’s largest fighter purchase in a generation is not stuck on money. It is not stuck on delivery dates, offsets, or how many aircraft get built in Nashik rather than Bordeaux. It is stuck on lines of code.New Delhi wants access to the software architecture at...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
At 04:44 on Sunday morning, a Romanian radar operator watched a small, slow-moving return cross the Prut and slide into national airspace from Moldova, roughly 24 kilometres north of Galați. Seventeen minutes later it no longer existed.The aircraft that killed it...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
Cheap drones have humbled expensive air defenses for years now. The Pentagon’s answer keeps coming back to the same idea: a weapon that fires light, costs pennies a shot, and never runs out of magazine. This week a senior Defense Department official told...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
America already has hypersonic missiles on the way. DARPA has just told industry that “on the way” is not good enough. On 7 August 2026, the Pentagon’s far-out research agency released a notice for a possible new program — the Next-Generation...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
For 55 years, the same stubby twin-engine helicopter has clattered over Washington, ferrying VIPs and standing ready to whisk officials out of the capital in a crisis. The UH-1N Huey’s watch is finally ending. On 12 August 2026, the Air Force confirmed Joint...
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