Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
Qatar is about to stop borrowing other people’s gas stations. On Aug. 20, 2026, the US State Department signed off on a possible $4.5 billion sale of four Boeing KC-46A Pegasus tankers to the Qatar Emiri Air Force, a deal that would let the small, cash-rich Gulf...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
General Atomics has a new drone, and it picked a name that reads like a warning label: Wildfire. Revealed to The War Zone and Aviation Week around 20 August 2026, it is the company’s clean-sheet pitch for whatever comes after the MQ-9 Reaper, a workhorse the US...
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Retired jets are supposed to sit quietly in a desert, gathering dust and pigeons. Somebody forgot to tell the Nighthawk. Eighteen years after the US Air Force officially waved goodbye, a dry-as-toast government contracting notice has just outed one of the...
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After years of slipped deadlines, restarted production lines, and enough delay drama to fill a season of prestige TV, Taiwan’s first factory-fresh Vipers are finally pointed home. Two jets, tail numbers 6727 and 6728, lifted off from Fort Worth, Texas, on 17...
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A single photograph, and the internet decided China had built a mirror. Over the weekend of Aug. 19, 2026, fresh images of a PLA Navy J-35 carrier fighter in flight rocketed around military-watcher circles. Instead of the usual matte grey, the jet’s skin caught...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
Es ist eine Sache, einen Kampfjet unversehrt nach Hause zu bringen. Eine ganz andere, ihn falsch herum landen zu lassen. Am Morgen des 18. August 2026 setzte eine F-15J Eagle der japanischen Luftselbstverteidigungsstreitkräfte auf Landebahn 36L des Flughafens Naha auf der Insel Okinawa auf, und die linke Seite...
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Alle Drohneneinsätze an der NATO-Ostflanke endeten diesen Sommer gleich: Etwas stürzte vom Himmel. Am 20. August 2026 schrieb Rumänien das Drehbuch neu. Diesmal befand sich das Ziel nicht über uns. Es trieb im Wasser auf eine mit … beladene Gasplattform zu.
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
A month ago, Donald Trump stood next to Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in Ankara and all but handed Turkey the keys to the F-35. Sanctions? Gone, he suggested. The stealth jet Ankara was thrown out of buying? Back on the table. It was the kind of moment that makes...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
Five days. That is how long Ulchi Freedom Shield lasted before somebody pulled the plug. The largest combined military exercise on the Korean Peninsula was built to run eleven, 17 August through 27. Instead the United States and South Korea are shutting it down...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
The U.S. Navy just handed Shield AI roughly $50 million to build a jet that doesn’t need a runway, and the U.S. Air Force declined to chip in a single dollar. One service sees the future. The other sees a very expensive question mark and a wallet that’s...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
A Marine walks out of the woods with a bloodied face and a phone in his hand, 911 already dialled. A county deputy, not quite sure what he is looking at, asks the obvious question: what kind of jet is that? The pilot glances back toward the column of black smoke on...
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