Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
Share this story Brazil just did something only a handful of countries on Earth can claim: it built its own supersonic fighter jet. On 25 March 2026, Embraer, Saab and the Brazilian Air Force (FAB) pulled the covers off the first Gripen E assembled on Brazilian soil...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
Share this story It is official: Indonesia is now a Rafale operator. The first three Dassault Rafale fighters touched down at Roesmin Nurjadin Air Base in Pekanbaru, Sumatra, on 23 January 2026 — the opening batch of an eventual 42-jet fleet that will become the...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
Share this story It is officially happening: the first jet that will one day wear a Swiss cross is now bolted together on a factory floor in Georgia. After years of votes, lawsuits and price rows, Switzerland’s F-35A has stopped being a PowerPoint slide and...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
Share this story At ILA Berlin, Airbus pulled the covers off a long, dark shape with knife-thin wings and no cockpit — and gave Europe its clearest look yet at the robot fighter it wants to send to war alongside its pilots. The aircraft is the U-760 Ravenstorm, an...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
Share this story It was a Friday afternoon at the Pentagon, 29 February 2008 — a leap day, fittingly, for a decision almost nobody saw coming. Air Force officials stepped before the press to name the winner of the KC-X tanker programme, 179 aircraft and roughly 35...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
Share this story On the morning of 25 January 1995, on the island of Andøya in Arctic Norway, a team of Norwegian and American scientists watched a four-stage Black Brant XII sounding rocket climb away from its launcher and curve north-east over the sea towards...
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