Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
Share this story Before dawn on 1 August 1943, the desert around Benghazi coughed itself awake. One hundred and seventy-eight B-24 Liberators, engines scoured half to death by Libyan sand, staggered off the runways with 3,100 US gallons (11,700 litres) of fuel and...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
Share this story At 22:47 on 24 April 1980, a blacked-out MC-130 thumped down on a salt flat 200 miles (320 km) southeast of Tehran, and the most secret mission in America promptly met the public. Headlights. A Mercedes bus, forty-plus Iranian civilians aboard,...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
Share this story Last week we walked you through the sustainment data fight simmering between Boeing and the Air Force over the T-7A Red Hawk. Seven days later, the Government Accountability Office showed up with receipts. GAO’s Weapon Systems Annual Assessment,...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
Share this story Six years ago the United States took Turkey’s F-35s away. The jets Ankara had already paid for went into storage in the Arizona desert, Turkish pilots were sent home from Luke Air Force Base, and roughly 100 stealth fighters on order evaporated....
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
Share this story Eighty targets. One night. That is CENTCOM’s answer to Iran shooting at oil tankers again. Overnight into Wednesday, US forces worked their way down a target list across southern Iran: air defense systems, command-and-control networks, coastal...
Luftfahrtwelt, Militärische Luftfahrt
Mit der Zerstörung der An-225 Mriya im Jahr 2022 verlor die Welt ihr größtes Flugzeug. Doch der Westen unterhält nach wie vor einen eigenen Giganten in der Luft – einen, der schon vor den Mondlandungen Panzer, Hubschrauber und Satelliten um den Planeten transportierte und….
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
Share this story Pakistan is on course to fly something no air force outside China has ever operated: a Chinese stealth fighter. The Pakistan Air Force has moved to acquire the Shenyang J-35 — reportedly up to 40 jets — in what would be the first export sale of a...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
Share this story There is one aircraft the United States hopes it never has to use for its real job: the plane that would relay the order to launch nuclear missiles from America’s submerged submarines. Its replacement is now running late — and the government watchdog...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
Share this story Ten minutes after lifting off from New York on Independence Day, climbing through 15,800 feet, the crew of a NetJets business jet saw something big and silver flash past their windscreen — close enough to report it. Then it was gone. They keyed the...
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