Comparte esta historia Perú ha completado discretamente uno de los aspectos más importantes de su futuro caza. El 19 de agosto de 2026, L3Harris confirmó que había sido seleccionada para suministrar el sistema de guerra electrónica AN/ALQ-254(V)1 Viper Shield para los F-16 Block 70 destinados a...
Comparte esta historia. La comparación surge apenas noventa segundos después de cualquier conversación sobre presupuestos de defensa. Europa se está rearmando, China está construyendo buques de guerra a un ritmo sin precedentes, y alguien lo dice: así se sentía antes de 1914. A veces recurren a...
Comparte esta historia. India puede construir fuselajes de aviones de combate. Lo que nunca ha logrado construir es un motor para aviones de combate. Esa única carencia ha lastrado el poder aéreo indio durante décadas, y el 14 de agosto de 2026, el hombre más rico del país anunció un plan para subsanarla. Reliance...
Share this story On a moonless night in 1942, an RAF bomber crossing the Dutch coast flew into a wall it could not see. There was no barrier in the sky — only an invisible grid of radar beams, searchlights and waiting fighters, each box of it engineered to catch one...
Share this story It is not often that an aircraft gets fifty percent more power without getting any bigger. That is exactly what the U.S. Army is trying to bolt into thousands of its helicopters — and on 12 August 2026 the effort passed one of its hardest gates. GE...
Share this story The F-104 Starfighter has one of the worst reputations in military aviation. Germany bought 916 of them, lost 292, and buried 116 pilots. The Luftwaffe called it the Witwenmacher — the Widowmaker.On one night in January 1982, that aircraft did...
Comparte esta historia. En 2025, el mundo gastó 1.887 millones de dólares en sus fuerzas armadas. Esta es la cifra más alta jamás registrada por el SIPRI, el undécimo aumento anual consecutivo, lo que equivale a 1.352 millones de dólares por cada persona viva. A continuación se detalla en qué se gastó ese dinero, contabilizado como...
Share this story Count the engines on a Dornier Do 31 and you get to ten. Two of them are Pegasus turbofans, the same vectored-thrust engines that made the Harrier work. The other eight do nothing whatsoever in cruise. They sit in pods on the wingtips, four a side,...
Share this story The radar worked. That was the strange part. It could see aircraft, track them, and hand the picture to the operators behind it. It simply could not do so reliably, or for long, or against the one category of target the entire programme existed to...
Share this story America already has hypersonic missiles on the way. DARPA has just told industry that “on the way” is not good enough. On 7 August 2026, the Pentagon’s far-out research agency released a notice for a possible new program — the...
Share this story Russian state television has aired footage of a new strike drone called the BM-35, and the numbers attached to it are eye-catching: a jet engine, a top speed of more than 350 km/h, and a claim that Ukrainian interceptors simply cannot catch it. As...
Share this story Picture the Deutschlandhalle in Berlin in February 1938. The arena is packed. Down on the floor sits a contraption that looks like a light trainer that has lost its wings and grown two enormous three-blade fans on outrigger struts. A slight young...
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