Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
Air Combat Command’s director of operations stood up at the Air, Space and Cyber conference this week and said the F-35 “absolutely proved itself” in combat over Iran.He is right. He also attached a condition to the sentence that is doing an enormous...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
For as long as the United States has had an independent Air Force, defending its airfields against attack from the sky has been somebody else’s job. Specifically, the Army’s.That arrangement is quietly collapsing, and at the Air, Space and Cyber conference...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
A Russian drone crossed into Lithuanian airspace overnight on 15 September, and NATO fighters shot it down. That part has happened before — by the alliance air commander’s own count, at least six times now.What is new is that the officer responsible for...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
Electronic warfare has always been an expensive aircraft’s privilege. The jamming pod on an EA-18G Growler is a large, power-hungry, individually precious thing, hung on an aircraft that costs tens of millions of dollars and is flown by people you very much want...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
Until now, Anduril’s YFQ-44A Fury has been an air-to-air aircraft. It carries AIM-120 AMRAAMs, it flies alongside crewed fighters, and in July it became the first American collaborative combat aircraft to fire a missile in anger at a test range.At the Air, Space...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
Three Mitsubishi F-2As landed at Air Force Station Jodhpur this month, and in doing so did something no Japanese fighter had ever done: deploy operationally to an Indian air base.Exercise Veer Guardian 26 runs from 9 to 21 September at Jodhpur and in the surrounding...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
Somewhere over Africa this spring, a four-engine turboprop that first flew in 1954 rolled its ramp open and pushed a missile out the back. The missile fell clear, unfolded its wings, lit a small turbojet and flew away. Minutes later it was several hundred miles...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
The United States Air Force has been trying to graduate 1,500 pilots a year for the better part of a decade. It has repeatedly said the number out loud, repeatedly built plans around it, and repeatedly missed it. On Sunday, Air Education and Training Command announced...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
In October 2025, three F-15 Eagles took off from Barnes Air National Guard Base in Westfield, Massachusetts, and did not come back. That was the end of eighteen years of Eagle operations by the 104th Fighter Wing. One of the pilots in that final three-ship was Capt....
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