Aviación militar, Noticias
The caption was eleven words long. “Golden hour. Live fire. Mothership operations with 75th Ranger Regiment, U.S. Army.” That is the entirety of what has been made public about the US Army’s most secretive infantry unit testing a drone that carries...
Aviación militar, Noticias
There is no harbour on Jan Mayen. There is no town, no permanent population, and for most of the year not much daylight either. There is a strip of black volcanic gravel about a kilometre and a half long, no instrument approach, and a 2,277-metre volcano that...
Aviación militar, Noticias
A plumber driving home past Long Beach Airport on Thursday evening saw light spilling out of a hangar that had been shut for years. He turned around. What he found parked on the ramp was eighty feet of matte black airframe with no cockpit, no canopy, and no obvious...
Aviación militar, Noticias
For four years Ukraine has fought an air war essentially blind above a certain altitude, relying on ground-based radar that cannot see over the horizon and cannot move quickly when it is targeted. On 5 September the Ukrainian Ministry of Defence confirmed something...
Aviación militar, Noticias
A single helicopter arriving at a mountain airfield in Styria is not usually news. This one is, because it is the twelfth, and twelve is a third of the way through the largest helicopter recapitalisation the Austrian armed forces have ever attempted. The aircraft flew...
Aviación militar, Noticias
The hard part of hypersonics is not going fast. It is going fast often enough to learn anything. Flight tests above Mach 5 are rare, enormously expensive and frequently one-shot. A programme might get a handful of attempts across a decade, and if two of them fail...
Aviación militar, Noticias
On Saturday morning a squadron of F-35Bs taxied onto the flight line at Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, on the Seto Inland Sea, and took over a job the US Marine Corps has been rotating through Japan since 1980. The unit is Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 533, the...
Aviación militar, Noticias
The United States Air Force has lost at least 45 MQ-9 Reapers since the Iran war began. That is roughly a quarter of the fleet, gone, in about a year. The service has now decided that the answer is not a better Reaper. It is a cheaper one — and it wants it four...
Aviación militar, Noticias
The Royal Air Force has a motto that was chosen in 1912, long before anyone had a serious plan for getting there: per ardua ad astra, through adversity to the stars. On 1 September 2026 the RAF quietly took the astra part literally. Air Command, the headquarters of...
Mundo de la aviación, Aviación militar, Noticias
La colección Fighter de Duxford exhibe aviones que la mayoría de los museos atornillarían a un pedestal. A finales del mes pasado, uno de los más raros sufrió un problema de motor durante un vuelo de mantenimiento y terminó volcado en un campo al noroeste de Royston. El piloto no estaba...
Aviación militar, Noticias
Four fighters is not an air force. Four fighters, three tankers, two airlifters and three hundred people who can put all of that down on a foreign runway and have it flying again the next morning — that is an air force, compressed. On 8 September the French Air...
Aviación militar, Noticias
Claims about strikes deep inside Russia are cheap. Verification is not. This week the satellites caught up with two of them, and the pictures are unusually specific about what Ukrainian drones actually hit. At Millerovo air base in Rostov Oblast, imagery published by...
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