Luftfahrtwelt, Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
Share this story There is expensive, and then there is “costs more than Air Force One.” The VH-71 Kestrel, the helicopter that was supposed to become the next Marine One, somehow managed the second one. By the time anyone added it all up, the bill for 28...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
Share this story The Marine general who runs the F-35 program walked into a Senate hearing this week and said the quiet part out loud: the most expensive weapons program in history has outgrown the system built to keep it flying.It landed weeks after a Government...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
Share this story On 24 June 2026, the U.S. government signed one of the largest missile-defense checks in its history and handed it to a single company for a single job: build interceptors, and build them faster than America has ever built them before. The award to...
Im Inneren von MiGFlug, Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
Kein anderes Jet-Trainingsflugzeug der Welt hat einen längeren Schatten als die Aero L-39 Albatros. Mehr als 3.000 Exemplare wurden gebaut. Sie wird von über 30 Luftwaffen auf fünf Kontinenten geflogen. Zwei Jahrzehnte lang war sie das Rückgrat der Pilotenausbildung des Warschauer Pakts und ist auch 2026 noch das Flugzeug, das...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
Share this story Edwards Air Force Base is flying again. The question everyone at the desert test centre is still asking is why it had to stop. On 15 June, B-52H tail number 60-0061 — call sign Torch 11 — crashed moments after takeoff from Edwards, killing all eight...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
Die Islamischen Revolutionsgarden griffen am Sonntag amerikanische Militäreinrichtungen im Persischen Golf an und setzten ballistische Raketen und bewaffnete Drohnen gegen Stützpunkte in Kuwait und Bahrain ein. Teheran bezeichnete dies als direkte Reaktion auf US-Angriffe auf iranische Ziele in der Nähe von...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
Share this story Fifteen warplanes. Two nuclear powers. One very pointed message. On 27 June, Russia and China flew their largest joint strategic bomber patrol to date — a six-hour formation sweep through the Sea of Japan, East China Sea, and into the western Pacific....
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
Share this story NATO just put a bounty on Russian airfields — and the price tag is surprisingly modest. Allied Command Transformation and the NATO-Ukraine Joint Analysis, Training and Education Centre have launched “Persistent Airfield Denial,” an...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
Share this story The future of air combat just landed on a tiny Pacific island. Boeing’s MQ-28A Ghost Bat — the autonomous combat drone that could change everything about how wars are fought in the air — touched down at a remote airfield on Rota in the Northern...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
Share this story Two-star generals do not usually gang up on Congress. This spring, twenty-two of them did. In a single letter to the House and Senate appropriators, every adjutant general who commands an Air National Guard fighter unit signed the same blunt verdict:...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
Share this story Somewhere over Poltava Oblast, in the dark hours before dawn on 27 June, a Ukrainian MiG-29 simply went quiet. One moment the fighter was flying a combat mission; the next, contact was gone. The jet did not come home. This is the part of the war that...
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