Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
In June 1941 the United States rolled out a bomber so large that a B-17 could have parked under one of its wings. The Douglas XB-19 spanned 212 feet, carried sleeping bunks and a kitchen for its relief crew, and was, for a time, the largest aircraft ever to fly in...
Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
En una gélida noche de abril de 1978, un avión de pasajeros surcoreano, repleto de gente dormida, se desvió mil millas de su ruta, sobrevolando uno de los rincones más secretos de la Unión Soviética, y fue alcanzado por un misil aire-aire. Lo que sucedió después es uno de los sucesos más...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
La historia es irresistible: en plena Segunda Guerra Mundial, un colosal bombardero alemán de seis motores cruza el Atlántico, vuela hasta divisar el horizonte de Manhattan, fotografía Long Island y regresa a casa antes de que Estados Unidos siquiera sepa que estuvo allí. El...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
It was, by common consent, one of the most beautiful fighters ever built, and one of the most complete. Bigger, faster and longer-legged than the Mirage 2000 it grew from, the Dassault Mirage 4000 was France’s bid to build a true heavyweight, a twin-engine...
Aviación militar, Noticias
For three days in July, something kept flying over the most sensitive fighter base in Australia, and nobody could say what, or whose. Between July 11 and 13, multiple unidentified drones slipped into restricted airspace above RAAF Base Williamtown in New South Wales,...
Aviación militar, Noticias
The number landed like a dropped bomb: roughly 45 MQ-9 Reapers gone, about a quarter of the entire fleet, at a cost the Pentagon puts north of $1.3 billion for that one weapon system alone. That is the tally the Washington Post reported on August 13, citing three U.S....
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Long before the Tomahawk, and years before Polaris let a submarine fire a nuclear missile from beneath the waves, America’s first seagoing deterrent worked in the most nerve-wracking way imaginable. To shoot, the submarine had to surface in enemy waters, roll a...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Just after dawn on October 25, 1944, lookouts on a cluster of small American ships off the island of Samar saw something that should not have been there: pagoda masts on the horizon. The most powerful surface fleet Japan could still put to sea — battleships led...
Aviación militar, Noticias
South Korea has built its own stealth-shaped fighter. Now it wants its own long reach to go with it. On August 12, Korea Aerospace Industries and Hyundai Rotem signed a memorandum of understanding at KAI’s Sacheon headquarters to jointly develop a domestic...
Aviación militar, Noticias
For a week in mid-August, the skies over Selangor turned into a laboratory of contrasts: French delta-wing fighters flown by Indian pilots, sparring with Russian-built Flankers and American Hornets in Malaysian colours. Exercise Udara Shakti 2026 put the Rafale...
Aviación militar, Noticias
Air-to-air kills have been the rarest currency of the war over Ukraine. Both sides fly at the edges of each other’s missile range, lob long-shots, and turn for home. So when Moscow claims a single fighter dropped two enemy jets in one pass, it is worth a very close...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
In the last winter of World War II, Allied airmen flying night missions over Europe began to see something they could not explain. Glowing balls of light, orange and red, would appear beside their aircraft and pace them through the dark, matching their turns, hanging...
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