Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Comparte esta historia. En el verano de 1991, la Real Fuerza Aérea británica volaba Tornados supersónicos, se preparaba para el Eurofighter y acababa de presenciar el debut de aviones furtivos sobre Irak. Y el avión en el que confiaba para detectar amenazas entrantes y proteger las rutas de acceso norte a...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Share this story On a moonless night in 1942, an RAF bomber crossing the Dutch coast flew into a wall it could not see. There was no barrier in the sky — only an invisible grid of radar beams, searchlights and waiting fighters, each box of it engineered to catch one...
Aviación militar, Noticias
Share this story It is not often that an aircraft gets fifty percent more power without getting any bigger. That is exactly what the U.S. Army is trying to bolt into thousands of its helicopters — and on 12 August 2026 the effort passed one of its hardest gates. GE...
Aviación militar, Noticias
Share this story In a high-bay hall in Fort Worth, Texas, a matte-grey shape is about to disappear. Germany’s first F-35A Lightning II, the airframe stamped MG-01, has rolled out of final assembly and into the stage Lockheed Martin calls Aircraft Final Finishes:...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Share this story The F-104 Starfighter has one of the worst reputations in military aviation. Germany bought 916 of them, lost 292, and buried 116 pilots. The Luftwaffe called it the Witwenmacher — the Widowmaker.On one night in January 1982, that aircraft did...
Mundo de la aviación, Aviación militar
Comparte esta historia. En 2025, el mundo gastó 1.887 millones de dólares en sus fuerzas armadas. Esta es la cifra más alta jamás registrada por el SIPRI, el undécimo aumento anual consecutivo, lo que equivale a 1.352 millones de dólares por cada persona viva. A continuación se detalla en qué se gastó ese dinero, contabilizado como...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Share this story Count the engines on a Dornier Do 31 and you get to ten. Two of them are Pegasus turbofans, the same vectored-thrust engines that made the Harrier work. The other eight do nothing whatsoever in cruise. They sit in pods on the wingtips, four a side,...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Share this story On the morning of 12 May 1940, No. 12 Squadron was asked for volunteers. The target was a pair of bridges over the Albert Canal near Maastricht, across which the German Army was walking into Belgium. Everyone in the squadron volunteered.Five Fairey...
Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Share this story The cargo compartment of a C-5A Galaxy is the size of a small warehouse. On the afternoon of 4 April 1975, the crew at Tan Son Nhut filled the lower deck of one with cardboard boxes, and into the boxes they put babies — two and three to a box,...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Share this story The radar worked. That was the strange part. It could see aircraft, track them, and hand the picture to the operators behind it. It simply could not do so reliably, or for long, or against the one category of target the entire programme existed to...
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