Share this story An F-15EX Eagle II has touched down at Kadena Air Base. The newest variant of Boeing’s legendary air superiority fighter landed on Okinawa’s most strategically important airfield on June 29, returning to the Pacific’s frontline base...
Share this story The engines Turkey needs for its fifth-generation fighter are on the way — and Washington just wrote the permission slip. The Trump administration has notified Congress of a more than $700 million sale of General Electric F110 turbofan engines for...
Share this story The world’s most ambitious sixth-generation fighter programme just survived its biggest political test. The United Kingdom has committed £8.6 billion over the next four years to the Global Combat Air Programme, as part of its new £298 billion...
Un C-130J Super Hercules en una base de operaciones avanzada. El Hercules ha sido la columna vertebral del transporte aéreo táctico durante siete décadas, pero la Fuerza Aérea ahora planea su eventual reemplazo. (Fuerza Aérea de EE. UU. / Wikimedia Commons) En algún lugar del Pacífico occidental,...
Un KC-390 Millennium (FAB 2858) de la Fuerza Aérea Brasileña en exhibición en los Días de la OTAN 2023 en la República Checa. La aeronave ha ganado rápidamente popularidad entre las fuerzas aéreas europeas. (Wikimedia Commons) En febrero de 2026, Embraer y Northrop Grumman firmaron un memorando de...
Un MV-22B Osprey del Cuerpo de Marines a bordo de un buque de asalto anfibio de la Armada. El helicóptero de rotor basculante ha reemplazado al CH-46 Sea Knight en la función de asalto y al C-2 Greyhound en la función de transporte desde portaaviones. (Armada de EE. UU. / Wikimedia Commons) Se suponía que el Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey...
Somewhere in China’s vast defence-industrial complex, a missile is being built that could fundamentally change the arithmetic of air combat over the Pacific. The PL-16 — Beijing’s next-generation beyond-visual-range air-to-air missile — has never been...
Kelly Johnson diseñó el F-104 Starfighter con un único propósito: ascender rápidamente, volar a gran altitud y derribar bombarderos soviéticos antes de que llegaran a las ciudades estadounidenses. El ingeniero de Lockheed encuestó a pilotos de cazas durante la Guerra de Corea en 1951 y concluyó que lo que buscaban no era otro avión pesado...
On the afternoon of 6 April 1965, test pilot Roland “Bee” Beamont was having lunch at a pub near Boscombe Down when the BBC news bulletin came through the radio. Chancellor of the Exchequer James Callaghan, midway through his Budget Speech in the House of...
In September 1967, an ungainly four-engine turboprop lumbered off the runway at Nha Trang Air Base in South Vietnam. It looked like any other C-130 Hercules — the workhorse cargo plane that had been hauling troops, ammunition, and jeeps across theatre since the early...
Argentina went to war in the Falklands in April 1982 with five air-launched Exocet missiles. Five. That was the entire stock — France had delivered the AM39 variant along with a handful of Super Étendard strike fighters just months before the conflict began, and the...
On the morning of April 18, 1943, sixteen P-38 Lightning fighters took off from Fighter Two airstrip on Guadalcanal and turned west over the Solomon Sea. Their mission was not to engage enemy formations or escort bombers. It was to kill one man: Admiral Isoroku...
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