Comparte esta historia. En algún lugar del Báltico este verano, un Rafale francés se deslizó en formación junto a un avión ruso que casi nunca se deja ver. La aeronave era un Tupolev Tu-214PU, un avión de mando poco común y especialmente equipado que los analistas de fuentes abiertas vinculan con...
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...
Share this story Here is a strange way to predict a North Korean missile test. Open a flight-tracking website, and watch for a single, ageing American jet to take off from Nebraska, cross the Pacific, and start flying long racetrack patterns over the Yellow Sea. When...
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...
Share this story The Mirage 2000 first flew in 1978. The precision bomb now hanging under the United Arab Emirates’ version of it was designed in Abu Dhabi in the 2020s. That gap — a Cold War delta wing carrying a home-grown 21st-century weapon — is the whole...
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...
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:...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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,...
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