Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
On 10 August, Ukrainian drones hit the Taneco refinery at Nizhnekamsk in Tatarstan, 1,200 kilometres from Ukraine. We covered it in Ukraine Hits Russia’s Deepest Refinery Yet. Ten days later they went back and hit it again. That is the part worth paying...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
In April, the Chief of Naval Operations said the Navy would name the winner of the F/A-XX competition in August. The Defense Secretary said August. The Acting Navy Secretary said August. There is now one week of August left, and no announcement. We covered the...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
The first generation of America’s robot fighters is already being built. The second generation is still an argument about engines. Speaking at the Air Force’s Life Cycle Industry Days conference in Dayton, Ohio, senior acquisition officials laid out where...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
A fighter has a fixed number of places to hang things. Wings, fuselage, wingtips. Every pylon you fill with a bomb is a pylon you cannot fill with fuel, a targeting pod, or a missile to defend yourself with. That arithmetic has constrained air campaigns since the...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
America’s defence against an intercontinental ballistic missile aimed at its homeland currently rests on 44 interceptors: 40 buried in silos at Fort Greely, Alaska, and four at Vandenberg in California. The design dates to the early 2000s. The replacement is...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
For years the U.S. Navy has had a problem it could not shoot its way out of. Its best long-range air-to-air missile, the AIM-174B Gunslinger, is a magnificent weapon that only the F/A-18E/F Super Hornet can carry, and only hanging off a wing where every radar in the...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
The first of Taiwan’s brand-new F-16V fighters are on their way home, and China’s state media wants everyone to know it is not impressed. Two single-seat F-16V Block 70s left the United States on 17 August 2026, routing through Fort Worth, Hawaii and Guam...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
Picture the pitch meeting. It is 1948, the jet age is barely out of diapers, and someone at the U.S. Navy stands up and says: what if the fighter took off from the ocean? No carrier. No runway. Just a supersonic delta-wing jet, water-skiing into the sky like it is...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
For the first time, China has flown one of its heavyweight fighters to Africa. A formation of Shenyang J-16 strike jets touched down at an Egyptian air base early on 21 August 2026, opening the second edition of the “Eagles of Civilization” joint exercise...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
Als am 10. August 2026 ein Erdbeben der Stärke 7,4 den Westen Kolumbiens erschütterte, traf die amerikanische Hilfe mit vier Triebwerken ein. Innerhalb weniger Tage landeten Transportflugzeuge des Typs C-17 Globemaster III der US-Luftwaffe in Bogotá und Medellín, ihre Frachträume...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
Die US-Luftwaffe plant, im nächsten Jahr 38 F-35-Tarnkappenjäger zu beschaffen. Ihre einflussreichste Interessenvertretung hält das für völlig unzureichend und fordert mindestens 60 Maschinen pro Jahr. In einem Brief an die Kongressabgeordneten schrieb die Air & Air Force diese Woche….
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