Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
Im September 1944, als alliierte Bomber deutsche Städte in Schutt und Asche legten und die Luftwaffe in unerträglichem Tempo erfahrene Piloten verlor, erließ das Reichsluftfahrtministerium eine der verzweifeltsten Vorgaben in der Geschichte der Luftfahrt: die Entwicklung eines Düsenjägers, der...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
Am 15. April 1988 startete eine modifizierte Tupolew Tu-154 vom Moskauer Flughafen Schukowski. Eines ihrer drei Triebwerke wurde mit flüssigem Wasserstoff betrieben. Das Flugzeug stieg auf, flog eine Platzrunde und landete problemlos. Es erhielt die Bezeichnung Tu-155 und….
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
Share this story On 27 June 2025, Ukrainian Special Operations Forces struck Marinovka airbase in Russia’s Volgograd region. When the smoke cleared, four Sukhoi Su-34 Fullback fighter-bombers were destroyed on the ground. Four aircraft, gone in a single strike —...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
Share this story The West gave Ukraine its best single-engine fighter. Then Ukraine’s pilots threw away the instruction manual. Since the first F-16 Fighting Falcons arrived in Ukrainian skies in August 2024, the pilots who fly them have compiled a combat record...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
Die US-Luftwaffe hat stillschweigend eine der ambitioniertesten Waffenanforderungen der jüngeren Vergangenheit fallen gelassen: die Entwicklung einer neuen Luft-Luft-Rakete, die Ziele in einer Entfernung von mindestens 1.000 Seemeilen – umgerechnet etwa 1.150 Meilen – bekämpfen kann. Das entspricht ungefähr zehn...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
Share this story It is a grey morning at Bremen, late in the summer of 1971. On the concrete apron stands a stubby, hunched little jet, its camouflage still factory-fresh, the marking VAK 191 B painted along the nose. Three engines spool up at once and the noise is...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
Share this story At the Irkutsk Aviation Plant on 25 June 2026, a two-seat jet that has spent two decades teaching student pilots how to fly lifted off on a roughly 50-minute sortie, climbed no higher than 2,000 metres (about 6,600 ft) and held its speed below 600...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
Share this story It is 21 October 1929, and 169 people are about to do something no group of human beings has ever done: leave the ground together, in a single aircraft. On the surface of Lake Constance sits the reason — a flying boat so vast that the men...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
Share this story For all its sophistication, the F-35 has carried an awkward secret: it could not sink a ship without compromising the one thing it is famous for. Any missile big enough to threaten a modern warship had to hang under the wings — and the moment it...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
Share this story Most of what an air force does in secret stays secret. Occasionally, though, the secret taxis past a photographer in broad daylight. That is what happened at RAF Akrotiri, where the British Ministry of Defence has just released official photographs of...
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