Aviación militar, Noticias
Share this story On the afternoon of August 28, five grey shapes dropped out of the Atlantic murk and settled onto the runway at Łask, in central Poland. Tail numbers 3512, 3513, 3514, 3515 and 3516. With their wheels down, Poland’s fleet of fifth-generation...
Aviación militar, Noticias
Share this story At 09:40 on the morning of 28 August 2026, a twin-tailed shape lifted off the runway at Linköping and climbed into a grey Swedish sky. Forty minutes later it was back on the ground — and the Gripen family had a new member. The two-seat...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Share this story In September 1939, Poland went to war in the air flying gull-winged fighters that belonged to another decade. Yet in a hangar at Okęcie sat the aircraft that was supposed to change all that: the PZL.50 Jastrząb — the Hawk — a sleek,...
Mundo de la aviación, Noticias
Share this story A Ryanair Boeing 737-800 on final approach to Cologne/Bonn came uncomfortably close to a drone earlier this year. This week, the consequences arrived: Germany’s air-navigation authority has rewritten how the airport’s runways are used...
Aviación militar, Noticias
Share this story Sweden has decided that its most modern transport helicopter is not worth keeping. From 2027, the Swedish Armed Forces will begin retiring nine NH90 battlefield transports — barely a decade after the last of them was delivered — and lean...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Share this story On 12 August 1976 a small blue-and-white jet lifted off from Venegono, north of Milan, with Aermacchi test pilot Franco Bonazzi at the controls. It was registered I-NOVE and it was not, by any measure, a revolutionary aeroplane. It was an old design...
Aviación militar, Noticias
Share this story Shortly after one in the morning on 26 August, residents of Kotovsk — a small town in Russia’s Tambov Oblast, some 430 kilometres southeast of Moscow — counted at least ten explosions. By dawn a smoke column stood over the town, and...
Aviación militar, Noticias
Share this story Britain has spent three years shipping Storm Shadow cruise missiles to Ukraine. It has now agreed to something rather more consequential: letting Ukraine help build them.Ahead of Prime Minister Andy Burnham’s visit to Kyiv on 24 August, London...
Aviación militar, Noticias
Share this story Buried in a routine American contract announcement on Monday was a single word that set the European defence press moving: Poland.The US Department of War confirmed that Boeing had been awarded an indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract for...
Mundo de la aviación, Noticias
Share this story On 2 June this year, SAS flight SK969 lifted out of Copenhagen bound for Mumbai, ending a seventeen-year absence from India. Four hours later, somewhere over Azerbaijan, it turned around and flew home. The aircraft had departed without final clearance...
Aviación militar, Noticias
Share this story Somewhere over Egypt this week, a Chinese heavy fighter and a French-built Rafale turned hard against each other for the first time on record. Neither air force has said where, and neither has said who came off better — which has not stopped...
Aviación militar, Noticias
Share this story On 23 August, Ukraine’s Unmanned Systems Forces said it had engaged 14 targets across southern Russia and occupied Crimea in a single day, and hit 11 of them. Among them, according to the unit’s commander, were two Russian combat aircraft...
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