Share this story Eighty targets. One night. That is CENTCOM’s answer to Iran shooting at oil tankers again. Overnight into Wednesday, US forces worked their way down a target list across southern Iran: air defense systems, command-and-control networks, coastal...
Share this story On a summer day in 1965, workers and fishermen along the Ob River near Novosibirsk heard a scream of jet engines and looked up just in time to see something their minds could barely accept: a MiG-17 fighter, flashing low over the water — and then...
Share this story On 23 May 1943, a German fighter ace named Adolf Galland climbed into an aircraft with no propeller. He opened the throttles, felt a shove of thrust unlike anything a piston engine had ever given him, and afterwards reached for the only words that...
Ask which is better, the MiG-29 or the Su-30, and you have already misunderstood the question. They were never meant to compete. They are the two halves of a single idea — the Soviet Union’s deliberate decision to build one small fighter and one big one, each...
El documento más importante en la historia de los aviones furtivos no fue escrito en California ni en un aeródromo secreto en el desierto. Fue escrito en Moscú, en ruso, por un físico soviético, y la Unión Soviética permitió que se publicara en el extranjero porque decidió que el trabajo no tenía ninguna utilidad...
Cuando el An-225 Mriya fue destruido en 2022, el mundo perdió su avión más grande. Pero Occidente aún conserva un gigante propio en el aire, uno que ha transportado tanques, helicópteros y satélites por todo el planeta desde antes de los alunizajes, y que...
En la historia de los aviones de combate, casi nadie recuerda al subcampeón. El avión que pierde la competición recibe una placa en un museo, si tiene suerte, y el ganador se queda con la línea de producción. El Northrop YF-17 Cobra es la gran excepción. Perdió, y luego pasó a...
Share this story On the afternoon of 26 October 2001, Boeing chairman Phil Condit stood with his Joint Strike Fighter chief, Frank Statkus, in front of a television carrying a live feed from the Pentagon. The largest defence contract in history — one stealth fighter...
Share this story Pakistan is on course to fly something no air force outside China has ever operated: a Chinese stealth fighter. The Pakistan Air Force has moved to acquire the Shenyang J-35 — reportedly up to 40 jets — in what would be the first export sale of a...
Share this story In the desert of far-western China, a passing satellite caught something Beijing would much rather keep in the shadows: two enormous stealth flying wings, sitting in the open on a remote airfield — the larger of them nearly as wide as an American B-2...
Share this story There is one aircraft the United States hopes it never has to use for its real job: the plane that would relay the order to launch nuclear missiles from America’s submerged submarines. Its replacement is now running late — and the government watchdog...
Share this story Ten minutes after lifting off from New York on Independence Day, climbing through 15,800 feet, the crew of a NetJets business jet saw something big and silver flash past their windscreen — close enough to report it. Then it was gone. They keyed the...
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