Aviación militar, Noticias
For decades, “fighter jet” meant a human strapped into a cockpit. On 17 June 2026, the U.S. Air Force quietly ended that monopoly. It signed production contracts for two jet-powered combat aircraft that have no cockpit, no ejection seat, and no pilot — and...
Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Some aircraft look wrong. The Blohm & Voss BV 141 looks impossible. The crew sits in a glazed pod on one side; the engine and the entire tail are on the other, joined by a stub of wing. It is as if someone took half of two different aeroplanes and bolted them...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Era una tarde soleada y ordinaria en Florida. Alrededor de las dos de la tarde del 5 de diciembre de 1945, cinco bombarderos torpederos Grumman Avenger despegaron de la pista de la Estación Aeronaval de Fort Lauderdale en un ejercicio de navegación rutinario. Catorce hombres, un cielo despejado, un trozo de...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
A 22.966 metros de altura sobre el mar Báltico, el mundo es de un azul oscuro arriba y curvo abajo, y el único sonido en la cabina es el silbido del traje presurizado. La mañana del 29 de junio de 1987, esa calma se rompió con una explosión. El motor derecho del SR-71 Blackbird del teniente coronel Duane Noll...
Aviación militar, Noticias
A grey warship longer than three football fields is steaming through the Pacific, and stealth fighters are dropping onto its deck. For most navies that would be unremarkable. For Japan, it is something close to historic — because for eighty years, Japan insisted it...
Aviación militar, Noticias
For more than sixty years, “Air Force One” has meant one specific shade of pale blue — the robin’s-egg scheme drawn up for John F. Kennedy in 1962. On 19 June, a different 747 rolled into the light inside a hangar at Joint Base Andrews, and the blue was gone.In its...
Aviación militar, Noticias
It sounds like paperwork: a pilot from one Air Force unit flew an aircraft alongside a pilot from another. Except the aircraft was the B-21 Raider — the most secret new warplane in the world — and one of the men at the controls was a frontline combat pilot, not a test...
Aviación militar, Noticias
Durante años, la carrera por construir “aeronaves de combate robóticas” —aviones no tripulados que luchan junto a pilotos humanos— parecía una historia exclusivamente estadounidense y australiana. En una sola semana de junio, Europa plantó su bandera. En la feria aeronáutica ILA de Berlín, dos actores europeos muy diferentes...
Aviación militar, Noticias
On 16 June a brand-new F-35A lifted off from Fort Worth, flew for about an hour, and came home behind a chase jet. Routine — except for two black letters painted on its tail: WW.Those letters make aircraft 24-5970 the first F-35 ever to wear the Wild Weasel tail code....
Aviación militar, Noticias
It looks, at a glance, like a rich man’s toy: a sleek Bombardier business jet, the kind that ferries executives between capitals. Then you notice the lumps. A long blade running down its spine, blisters under the belly, a fairing crowning the tail — and suddenly the...
Aviación militar, Noticias
A hypersonic missile usually costs about as much as a small mansion — tens of millions of dollars per shot, hand-built, hoarded like crown jewels. The U.S. Navy just placed an order for a hypersonic missile it hopes to buy for the price of a modest house: somewhere...
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