Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
Share this story When a magnitude-7.4 earthquake tore through western Colombia on Aug. 10, 2026, the American response arrived on four jet engines. Within days, U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster III transports were touching down in Bogotá and Medellín,...
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Share this story The U.S. Air Force plans to buy 38 F-35 stealth fighters next year. Its most influential advocacy group says that is nowhere near enough, and that the real number should be at least 60, every single year. In a letter to Congressional leaders this...
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Share this story 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...
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Share this story 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...
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Share this story 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...
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Share this story 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,...
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Share this story 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...
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Share this story It is one thing to bring a fighter home in one piece. It is another to bring it home facing the wrong way. On the morning of Aug. 18, 2026, a Japan Air Self-Defense Force F-15J Eagle touched down on Runway 36L at Naha Airport, on the island of...
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Share this story Every drone story from NATO’s eastern flank this summer has ended the same way: something falls out of the sky. On 20 August 2026, Romania rewrote the script. This time the target was not overhead. It was in the water, drifting toward a gas...
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Share this story 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...
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Share this story 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...
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