Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
En septiembre de 1944, con los bombarderos aliados reduciendo a escombros las ciudades alemanas y la Luftwaffe perdiendo pilotos experimentados a un ritmo insostenible, el Ministerio del Aire del Reich emitió una de las especificaciones más desesperadas de la historia de la aviación: diseñar un caza a reacción que...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
El 15 de abril de 1988, un avión de pasajeros Tupolev Tu-154 modificado despegó del aeródromo Zhukovsky de Moscú con uno de sus tres motores funcionando con hidrógeno líquido. Ascendió a gran altitud, realizó un circuito y aterrizó sin incidentes. La aeronave fue designada Tu-155 y...
Aviación militar, Noticias
Share this story On 27 June 2025, Ukrainian Special Operations Forces struck Marinovka airbase in Russia’s Volgograd region. When the smoke cleared, four Sukhoi Su-34 Fullback fighter-bombers were destroyed on the ground. Four aircraft, gone in a single strike —...
Aviación militar, Noticias
Share this story The West gave Ukraine its best single-engine fighter. Then Ukraine’s pilots threw away the instruction manual. Since the first F-16 Fighting Falcons arrived in Ukrainian skies in August 2024, the pilots who fly them have compiled a combat record...
Aviación militar, Noticias
La Fuerza Aérea de los Estados Unidos ha descartado discretamente uno de los requisitos de armamento más ambiciosos de los últimos tiempos: un nuevo misil aire-aire capaz de destruir objetivos a una distancia mínima de 1000 millas náuticas, aproximadamente 1150 millas terrestres. Eso equivale a aproximadamente diez...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Share this story It is a grey morning at Bremen, late in the summer of 1971. On the concrete apron stands a stubby, hunched little jet, its camouflage still factory-fresh, the marking VAK 191 B painted along the nose. Three engines spool up at once and the noise is...
Aviación militar, Noticias
Share this story At the Irkutsk Aviation Plant on 25 June 2026, a two-seat jet that has spent two decades teaching student pilots how to fly lifted off on a roughly 50-minute sortie, climbed no higher than 2,000 metres (about 6,600 ft) and held its speed below 600...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Share this story It is 21 October 1929, and 169 people are about to do something no group of human beings has ever done: leave the ground together, in a single aircraft. On the surface of Lake Constance sits the reason — a flying boat so vast that the men...
Aviación militar, Noticias
Share this story For all its sophistication, the F-35 has carried an awkward secret: it could not sink a ship without compromising the one thing it is famous for. Any missile big enough to threaten a modern warship had to hang under the wings — and the moment it...
Aviación militar, Noticias
Share this story Most of what an air force does in secret stays secret. Occasionally, though, the secret taxis past a photographer in broad daylight. That is what happened at RAF Akrotiri, where the British Ministry of Defence has just released official photographs of...
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