Share this story Ukraine spent three years learning how to shoot down Shaheds cheaply. Machine guns on pickup trucks. Electronic warfare. Then, cleverest of all, small propeller-driven interceptor drones that cost a few thousand dollars and rammed a target worth far...
Teilen Sie diese Geschichte: Eines der mächtigsten Kriegsschiffe der Welt ist nach 286 Tagen auf See in einen thailändischen Hafen eingelaufen und sieht aus wie ein Schrottplatzfund. Der atomgetriebene Flugzeugträger USS Abraham Lincoln ist stark verrostet und hat Laem Chabang nahe Pattaya erreicht.
Teilen Sie diese Geschichte: Beobachten Sie eine Boeing 777X im Flug, und etwas wirkt fast beunruhigend: Die Tragflächen biegen sich. Und zwar stark. Bei böigem Wind schweben die Flügelspitzen meterhoch über dem Boden und biegen sich wie ein Sprungbrett. Passagiere, die das noch nicht kennen, schnappen manchmal nach Luft. Doch diese enorme Biegung ist kein...
Share this story The Boeing B-52 Stratofortress has been in service for seventy years and is on course to fly for a hundred. It has outlasted the Soviet Union, the propeller, and most of the engineers who designed it. And the design that made all of that possible...
Südkorea hat die Entwicklung seines ersten eigenen Kampfflugzeugs kaum abgeschlossen und arbeitet bereits am nächsten – und will diesmal eine Generation überspringen. Seoul hat offiziell die Konzeptstudie für einen Stealth-Kampfjet der sechsten Generation gestartet….
Share this story The Short Stirling was the first of the RAF’s great four-engine heavy bombers — into service before the Halifax, before the Lancaster, the aircraft that opened Britain’s strategic bombing war. It was huge, handsome and, in the end,...
Share this story When Soviet-built MiG-15s came screaming over Korea in late 1950 with their swept wings and steep climb, the United States Navy had a problem. Its best carrier jet, the Grumman F9F Panther, was a fine, sturdy machine — but its straight wing...
Share this story In the early 1950s the United States lay awake at night worrying about Soviet bombers slipping across the Arctic in the dark. The aircraft it scrambled to meet them was the Lockheed F-94 Starfire — the first American jet fighter with an...
Share this story In 1935 a newspaper baron dared British industry to build the fastest civil aircraft in Europe. The result was so quick that when the Royal Air Force turned it into a bomber, it could outrun its own fighters. Two years later that same design flew the...
Share this story The Blackburn Skua was slow, awkward and asked to do two jobs it could not both do well. It has been mocked ever since as one of the Fleet Air Arm’s worst fighters. And yet in the first months of the Second World War this unloved machine scored...
Share this story Nobody ever called the Fairey Barracuda beautiful. With its high shoulder-mounted wing, spindly legs and a clutter of struts and flaps hanging beneath it, the Fleet Air Arm’s torpedo and dive bomber looked like it had been assembled from spare...
Share this story On the night of 30 March 1944, RAF Bomber Command sent 795 heavy bombers to Nuremberg. Ninety-six of them never came home. In a single night, in a few hours over Germany, more than 500 young airmen were killed — the worst night the Command...
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