Aviación militar, Noticias
On 10 August, Ukrainian drones hit the Taneco refinery at Nizhnekamsk in Tatarstan, 1,200 kilometres from Ukraine. We covered it in Ukraine Hits Russia’s Deepest Refinery Yet. Ten days later they went back and hit it again. That is the part worth paying...
Aviación militar, Noticias
In April, the Chief of Naval Operations said the Navy would name the winner of the F/A-XX competition in August. The Defense Secretary said August. The Acting Navy Secretary said August. There is now one week of August left, and no announcement. We covered the...
Aviación militar, Noticias
The first generation of America’s robot fighters is already being built. The second generation is still an argument about engines. Speaking at the Air Force’s Life Cycle Industry Days conference in Dayton, Ohio, senior acquisition officials laid out where...
Aviación militar, Noticias
A fighter has a fixed number of places to hang things. Wings, fuselage, wingtips. Every pylon you fill with a bomb is a pylon you cannot fill with fuel, a targeting pod, or a missile to defend yourself with. That arithmetic has constrained air campaigns since the...
Aviación militar, Noticias
America’s defence against an intercontinental ballistic missile aimed at its homeland currently rests on 44 interceptors: 40 buried in silos at Fort Greely, Alaska, and four at Vandenberg in California. The design dates to the early 2000s. The replacement is...
Aviación militar, Noticias
For years the U.S. Navy has had a problem it could not shoot its way out of. Its best long-range air-to-air missile, the AIM-174B Gunslinger, is a magnificent weapon that only the F/A-18E/F Super Hornet can carry, and only hanging off a wing where every radar in the...
Aviación militar, Noticias
The first of Taiwan’s brand-new F-16V fighters are on their way home, and China’s state media wants everyone to know it is not impressed. Two single-seat F-16V Block 70s left the United States on 17 August 2026, routing through Fort Worth, Hawaii and Guam...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Picture the pitch meeting. It is 1948, the jet age is barely out of diapers, and someone at the U.S. Navy stands up and says: what if the fighter took off from the ocean? No carrier. No runway. Just a supersonic delta-wing jet, water-skiing into the sky like it is...
Aviación militar, Noticias
For the first time, China has flown one of its heavyweight fighters to Africa. A formation of Shenyang J-16 strike jets touched down at an Egyptian air base early on 21 August 2026, opening the second edition of the “Eagles of Civilization” joint exercise...
Mundo de la aviación, Noticias
United Airlines is about to open a box it has been rattling for weeks. On Tuesday, 25 August 2026, the carrier plans to roll out its first Airbus A321XLR at a hangar event in Newark and, alongside the jet, announce a batch of new international routes for 2027. The hub...
Aviación militar, Noticias
Cuando un terremoto de magnitud 7,4 sacudió el oeste de Colombia el 10 de agosto de 2026, la respuesta estadounidense llegó en cuatro aviones a reacción. En cuestión de días, los aviones de transporte C-17 Globemaster III de la Fuerza Aérea de EE. UU. aterrizaban en Bogotá y Medellín, con sus bodegas de carga...
Aviación militar, Noticias
La Fuerza Aérea de EE. UU. planea comprar 38 cazas furtivos F-35 el próximo año. Su grupo de presión más influyente afirma que esa cantidad es muy inferior a la necesaria y que la cifra real debería ser de al menos 60, cada año. En una carta dirigida a los líderes del Congreso esta semana, la Fuerza Aérea...
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