Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
Share this story 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...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
Share this story 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,...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
Share this story 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...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
Share this story 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...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
Share this story 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...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
Share this story 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...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
Share this story 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...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
Share this story 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...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
Teilen Sie diese Geschichte: Stellen Sie sich neben eine Antonov An-22, während sie ihre Triebwerke hochfährt, und Sie werden es nicht nur hören, Sie werden es spüren. Vier der stärksten je gebauten Turboprop-Triebwerke treiben acht riesige Propeller an, deren Blätter jeweils einen Kreis beschreiben, der höher ist als ein Haus, und der Klang ist...
Luftfahrtwelt, Geschichte & Legenden
Share this story No engine. No jet fuel. No rocket. Just a slender white sailplane, its long wings feeding on invisible rivers of rising air, climbing higher than a U-2 spy plane into the freezing black of the stratosphere. In 2018, the engineless Perlan 2 glider...
Luftfahrtwelt, Geschichte & Legenden
Share this story By almost every technical measure, the Lockheed L-1011 TriStar was the finest airliner of its generation. It could fly an approach and land itself in thick fog when rivals still needed a pilot’s hands. Its ride was smoother, its systems...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
Share this story In the summer of 1940, outnumbered RAF fighter pilots kept turning up in exactly the right place to meet the Luftwaffe, again and again. To the Germans it looked like uncanny luck. It was nothing of the sort. Along the coast of Britain stood a line of...
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