Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
Share this story A launch rail is a humble thing: a length of metal angled at the sky. Build fifty-nine of them along your western frontier, and you have something else entirely — a machine for reaching deep into a nervous continent. That is the picture drawn by...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
Share this story Overnight into 16 August, a large wave of Ukrainian drones flew toward the Moscow and Rostov regions, setting warehouses alight and, according to Russian officials, causing several casualties. It was, by the account of the Moscow regional governor,...
Luftfahrtwelt, Geschichte & Legenden
Share this story There are aircraft one admires, and there are aircraft one falls a little in love with. The Latécoère 631 belongs firmly to the second category. Conceived in Toulouse, the spiritual home of French aviation, she was the last and grandest...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
Share this story It was a little after ten on the night of 24 March 1944, and the pine woods of Lower Silesia were locked hard in frost. Some yards short of the tree line, the earth stirred, then opened. A head appeared, then a pair of shoulders in a made-over...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
Share this story Five months after two Iranian bombers were blown out of the sky short of a US air base in Qatar, a strange and very human question has resurfaced: what happened to the men who were flying them? On 15 August, Iran’s Armed Forces General Staff...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
Share this story In the small hours of 15 August, air-raid sirens climbed over Russia’s Samara region. Minutes later, residents nearly 900 kilometres from the Ukrainian border were filming a wall of orange fire rising above an industrial district — the...
Luftfahrtwelt, Geschichte & Legenden
Share this story Look at almost any small jet airliner of the 1960s and 1970s, the Douglas DC-9, the Boeing 727, the BAC One-Eleven, the Fokker F28, and you will see the same clever idea: the engines mounted at the tail, leaving the wing clean and the cabin quiet....
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
Share this story It was, by common consent, one of the most beautiful fighters ever built, and one of the most complete. Bigger, faster and longer-legged than the Mirage 2000 it grew from, the Dassault Mirage 4000 was France’s bid to build a true heavyweight, a...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
Share this story For a week in mid-August, the skies over Selangor turned into a laboratory of contrasts: French delta-wing fighters flown by Indian pilots, sparring with Russian-built Flankers and American Hornets in Malaysian colours. Exercise Udara Shakti 2026 put...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
Share this story On the morning of August 14, 2026, NATO fighter jets on Baltic Air Policing duty scrambled over eastern Latvia and shot down a drone that had crossed into the alliance’s airspace. The Latvian military said the aircraft had strayed into the...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
Share this story The most dangerous place for a Ukrainian fighter jet is not the sky. It is the ground. On August 13, 2026, Ukraine’s Security Service, the SBU, said it had dismantled a Russian intelligence network of fourteen people whose job was to find out...
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