Aviación militar, Noticias
El 29 de julio de 2026, la Fuerza Aérea Ucraniana informó de la pérdida de un F-16 durante una misión de combate para interceptar objetivos aéreos rusos. El piloto se eyectó y sobrevivió. Según la Fuerza Aérea, los controladores perdieron contacto con la aeronave mientras esta se encontraba en combate sobre una sección...
Aviación militar, Noticias
Aproximadamente a las 2:30 de la tarde del 30 de julio de 2026, los sensores ubicados a lo largo de la frontera de Corea del Sur con Corea del Norte detectaron algo que no pudieron identificar: una aeronave no tripulada, cerca de un puesto de avanzada en la línea del frente, que no emitía ninguna señal amistosa. En la zona más militarizada...
Aviación militar, Noticias
El 29 de julio de 2026, en la planta de Korea Aerospace Industries en Sacheon, Corea del Sur logró algo que solo un puñado de naciones ha conseguido: declaró finalizado su propio caza supersónico. El KF-21 Boramae —’joven halcón“— ha sido oficialmente finalizado...
Aviación militar, Noticias
Sobre los pinares de la Gironda, una silueta demasiado grande para ser un avión cisterna desciende a baja altura, abre su rampa de carga trasera y deja caer una cascada roja de retardante sobre las copas de los árboles. No es un Canadair amarillo. Es un Airbus A400M Atlas, el mayor avión de transporte táctico...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Some warplanes make their name in dogfights, twisting through the sky with guns blazing. The McDonnell F-101 Voodoo made most of its name doing the opposite: flying low, flying flat out, and flying completely unarmed straight over the people trying to kill it,...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Some aircraft impress by their cleverness. The Tupolev Tu-160 impresses first by its sheer dimensions. At 54.1 metres (177 ft 6 in) it is longer than a Boeing B-52, and when its wings are spread it measures 55.7 metres (182 ft 9 in) from tip to tip. Painted in...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Every so often aviation history throws up an aircraft whose greatest achievement was simply existing. The Bell P-59 Airacomet is the patron saint of that club. It was America’s first jet aircraft, a genuine milestone, and yet it was so underwhelming in the air...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Most military aircraft can be summed up in a single job. Fighters fight. Bombers bomb. Attack helicopters attack. And then there is the Mil Mi-24, a machine that looked at the neat little boxes military planners like to draw and cheerfully refused to sit in any of...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Ask anyone who was there and they will tell you the same thing: you heard it before you saw it. A low, chopping pulse rolling in over the treeline, whop-whop-whop, growing until it filled the whole sky. For a generation of soldiers, that sound meant almost everything...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Few aircraft announce themselves before they are seen. The Tupolev Tu-95, known to NATO as the “Bear,” is one of them. It is a large, four-engine turboprop strategic bomber, and yet it cruises at speeds normally reserved for jets. That contradiction, a...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Some aeroplanes are admired. A rare few are loved. The Hawker Hunter belongs firmly to the second category, and it has done so since the day it first slipped into the air in 1951. Ask a British pilot of a certain vintage to name the most beautiful jet ever built and...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Say “four-engine British heavy bomber” to almost anyone and you will get the same answer: the Lancaster. The Avro Lancaster is the one that flew the Dambusters raid, the one still cruising over air shows on a summer afternoon, the one bolted into the...
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