Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
A signature in a museum is not a fighter order. It is worth holding on to that distinction this week, because the two things are already being folded into one another. On 9 September 2026, at the Polish Army Museum in Warsaw, Under Secretary of State for Arms Control...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
On 5 December 1941, Squadron Leader A. E. Hill flew a photo-reconnaissance Spitfire along the Normandy coast at very low level and took a photograph of a clifftop near a village called Bruneval. In it, next to a villa, sits a large white dish. British scientists had...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
Sweden has roughly ten million people and builds its own fighter aircraft. It has done so, without interruption, since the 1940s. That is a peculiar and slightly improbable national habit, and on 9 September 2026 Stockholm quietly paid to keep it going for another...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
Ten days before the party, the aeroplane went flying anyway. Germany’s first F-35A Lightning II lifted off from Lockheed Martin’s Fort Worth plant on 8 September 2026, wearing a full-colour German flag on the tail and the fuselage code 35+01. Lockheed...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
The question being asked in Bern this afternoon is not whether the F-35 procurement went wrong. That is settled. It is whether anyone will personally pay for it. A day after the oversight committee reported that Switzerland never had a fixed price for its F-35As, the...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
Somewhere in San Diego there were two MQ-9A Reapers that nobody had bought. They are Italian now. A note on the pictures: no photograph of an Italian Air Force MQ-9 is available under a licence we can use, so the aircraft shown here are US Air Force Reapers of the...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
The problem with the FPV attack drone — the weapon that has defined three years of fighting in Ukraine — is that it needs a pilot. Not a technician, a pilot: somebody who can fly a fast, twitchy quadcopter into a moving target through a laggy video feed,...
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