Comparte esta historia La pista de aterrizaje de la RAF Lyneham la mañana del 22 de julio de 1966 albergaba uno de los aviones menos probables de Gran Bretaña: un interceptor Lightning sin cabina, con el asiento eyectable desactivado, el tren de aterrizaje inmovilizado y un hombre en la cabina que no llevaba puesto...
Comparte esta historia. Los kuwaitíes se despertaron antes del amanecer del miércoles con el sonido que su gobierno ya les había advertido: el despegue de interceptores de defensa aérea. Por segunda vez en tres días, Irán había disparado misiles y drones contra bases estadounidenses en territorio kuwaití. El...
Comparte esta historia. Ucrania pasó tres años aprendiendo a derribar Shaheds de forma económica. Ametralladoras en camionetas. Guerra electrónica. Luego, lo más ingenioso de todo: pequeños drones interceptores propulsados por hélices que costaban unos pocos miles de dólares y embestían un objetivo de gran valor...
Share this story One of the most powerful warships on Earth just limped into a Thai port looking like a scrapyard find. After 286 days at sea, the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln has pulled into Laem Chabang near Pattaya streaked with rust —...
Comparte esta historia. El Boeing B-52 Stratofortress lleva setenta años en servicio y va camino de alcanzar los cien. Ha sobrevivido a la Unión Soviética, a la hélice y a la mayoría de los ingenieros que lo diseñaron. Y el diseño que hizo posible todo eso...
Share this story South Korea has barely finished building its first home-grown fighter, and it is already reaching for the next one — and this time it wants to skip a generation. Seoul has formally launched the concept study for a sixth-generation stealth...
Share this story The Short Stirling was the first of the RAF’s great four-engine heavy bombers — into service before the Halifax, before the Lancaster, the aircraft that opened Britain’s strategic bombing war. It was huge, handsome and, in the end,...
Share this story When Soviet-built MiG-15s came screaming over Korea in late 1950 with their swept wings and steep climb, the United States Navy had a problem. Its best carrier jet, the Grumman F9F Panther, was a fine, sturdy machine — but its straight wing...
Share this story In the early 1950s the United States lay awake at night worrying about Soviet bombers slipping across the Arctic in the dark. The aircraft it scrambled to meet them was the Lockheed F-94 Starfire — the first American jet fighter with an...
Share this story In 1935 a newspaper baron dared British industry to build the fastest civil aircraft in Europe. The result was so quick that when the Royal Air Force turned it into a bomber, it could outrun its own fighters. Two years later that same design flew the...
Share this story The Blackburn Skua was slow, awkward and asked to do two jobs it could not both do well. It has been mocked ever since as one of the Fleet Air Arm’s worst fighters. And yet in the first months of the Second World War this unloved machine scored...
Share this story Nobody ever called the Fairey Barracuda beautiful. With its high shoulder-mounted wing, spindly legs and a clutter of struts and flaps hanging beneath it, the Fleet Air Arm’s torpedo and dive bomber looked like it had been assembled from spare...
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