La noche del 11 de noviembre de 1940, veintiún biplanos Fairey Swordfish —bombarderos torpederos de cabina abierta, con carrocería de tela y una velocidad máxima de 224 kilómetros por hora— atacaron la flota italiana anclada en el puerto de Taranto. Al finalizar el ataque, tres acorazados se estaban hundiendo...
Ya hemos escrito anteriormente sobre el estatus legendario del F-8 Crusader como el "último de los pistoleros": el avión de la Armada que fue a la guerra de Vietnam armado principalmente con cuatro cañones Colt Mk 12 de 20 mm cuando todos los demás cazas de la flota estaban en transición...
El 2 de marzo de 2026, dos bombarderos tácticos iraníes Su-24 Fencer sobrevolaban el Golfo Pérsico a tan solo 24 metros sobre el nivel del mar. Sus objetivos: la base aérea de Al Udeid —el centro neurálgico de las operaciones militares estadounidenses en Oriente Medio— y el embalse de Ras Laffan...
Cuando dos terremotos sacudieron el norte de Venezuela el 24 de junio —un sismo premonitorio de magnitud 7,2 seguido 39 segundos después por un catastrófico sismo principal de magnitud 7,5— la frágil infraestructura del país colapsó en cuestión de minutos. Edificios quedaron reducidos a escombros en Caracas...
Share this story It is just after ten in the morning on 19 June 1944, and Lieutenant (junior grade) Alexander Vraciu is hanging in the blue over the Philippine Sea, hood back, oxygen mask tight, hunting. Below and ahead of his Grumman F6F Hellcat, a loose gaggle of...
Share this story The fire that broke out before dawn on Sunday in a refinery in Russia’s Krasnodar region was, by now, a familiar sight. Columns of black smoke climbed kilometres into low cloud over Slavyansk-na-Kubani, a stone’s throw from annexed Crimea....
Share this story It is mid-morning on 8 June 2026 at Ellington Field in Houston, and Harry “D-Day” Daye is strapping into a machine that has not left the ground in seven years. The ramp smells of jet fuel and Texas heat. Behind him sits Jerod Flohr, one of the...
Share this story It is a Saturday morning over the East Sea, and on a Korean radar screen the blips appear early — a cluster of them, more than ten military aircraft, Chinese and Russian, moving in sequence toward the edge of the country’s watch. Inside an...
Share this story On the morning of 2 September 1958, a four-engined transport drones eastward through the clear sky near the Turkish-Soviet border. To anyone who glanced up, it is just a C-130 Hercules — an unglamorous cargo hauler. It is not. Tail number 60528...
Share this story At Aero India 2025, on a warm February morning at Yelahanka Air Force Station near Bengaluru, a small boy tips his head all the way back. Above him a Russian Su-57 hauls itself into a vertical climb, rolls over the top, and falls back toward the...
Share this story On the morning of 28 June 1939, twenty-two extraordinarily lucky people walked down a pier at Port Washington on Long Island and climbed aboard what looked like an ocean liner with wings. Captain R.O.D. Sullivan ran up the four big engines, and the...
Share this story It was a bright, ordinary afternoon in Florida. At about two o’clock on 5 December 1945, five Grumman Avenger torpedo bombers rumbled off the runway at Naval Air Station Fort Lauderdale on a routine navigation exercise. Fourteen men, a clear sky, a...
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