Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
A ground-based IRIS-T battery can reach about eight miles in its short-range form, or roughly 25 miles in the medium-range version. Useful numbers, until the thing you need to shoot down is 200 miles away and heading for a city. So Diehl Defence and a German start-up...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
In the autumn of 1982, eight Soviet bombers came down on the USS Enterprise and USS Midway in the North Pacific and locked their radars on both carriers from about 190 kilometres out. The US Navy’s response was deliberately restrained, because watching how they...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
Ask a large language model for the combat radius of a foreign fighter and it will give you a number. Confident, specific, formatted like a fact. It may also be entirely invented. That is an inconvenience if you are writing a school essay. It is something else if you...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
On 14 August 2026 the Russian state news agency TASS reported that the two-seat Su-57D will be used to test combat artificial intelligence under development at the Sukhoi Design Bureau. The source was Mikhail Strelets, the bureau’s director, speaking on the...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
Correction — 24 August 2026This report followed Ukraine’s Unmanned Systems Forces in identifying one of the aircraft struck at Vityazevo as a Su-33. Analysts examining the released footage have since assessed, from the raised fairing behind the cockpit,...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
Every elegant aircraft has an ungainly predecessor. Before the Hawker Siddeley Harrier hovered over Falklands task forces and Marine Corps flight decks, there was the Hawker P.1127: a stubby, bug-eyed prototype that looked less like a fighter than an experiment that...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
Before the Lancaster, before the B-17, before the very idea of a four-engined heavy bomber was settled doctrine, one already existed — and it was bombing London. The Zeppelin-Staaken R.VI, built from 1916, was a four-engined biplane with a wingspan of 42.2...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
On the morning of 27 August 1939, over the Heinkel works at Rostock-Marienehe, a small, stub-nosed monoplane lifted off with a sound no one had heard from an aeroplane before: a rising, tearing howl in place of the familiar hammer of pistons. It was the Heinkel He...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
In the late 1930s the Focke-Wulf Fw 200 Condor was, briefly, the most modern airliner in the sky: a clean, four-engined monoplane that could cross an ocean without stopping. Within three years the same graceful airframe was ranging far out over the Atlantic with bombs...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
Russian sources say the Su-35S has taken on a new and demanding job over Ukraine: hunting the radars that guide enemy air defences. Footage circulated on 22 August 2026 purports to show an Su-35 launching a Kh-31PM anti-radiation missile at a Ukrainian air-defence...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
Steht man neben einer Antonov An-22, während sie ihre Triebwerke hochfährt, hört man es nicht nur, man spürt es. Vier der stärksten je gebauten Turboprop-Triebwerke treiben acht gewaltige Propeller an, deren Blätter jeweils einen Kreis beschreiben, der höher ist als ein Haus, und der Klang ist ein tiefes, reißendes Geräusch ….
Luftfahrtwelt, Geschichte & Legenden
Kein Motor. Kein Kerosin. Keine Rakete. Nur ein schlanker, weißer Segelflieger, dessen lange Flügel unsichtbare Aufwinde nutzten und höher stiegen als ein U-2-Spionageflugzeug in die eisige Schwärze der Stratosphäre. Im Jahr 2018 erreichte der motorlose Segelflieger Perlan 2 eine Höhe von 76.124 Fuß….
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