Aviación militar, Noticias
General Atomics tiene un nuevo dron, y ha elegido un nombre que suena a advertencia: Wildfire. Presentado a The War Zone y Aviation Week alrededor del 20 de agosto de 2026, es la propuesta completamente nueva de la compañía para lo que venga después del MQ-9 Reaper, un dron de gran utilidad para Estados Unidos...
Aviación militar, Noticias
Se supone que los aviones retirados deben permanecer en silencio en el desierto, acumulando polvo y palomas. Alguien se olvidó de avisarle al Nighthawk. Dieciocho años después de que la Fuerza Aérea de EE. UU. se despidiera oficialmente, un aviso de contratación gubernamental, tan seco como una tostada, acaba de revelar uno de los...
Aviación militar, Noticias
Fresh, far clearer imagery of China’s new turboprop tactical airlifter surfaced around 21 August 2026, reported first by The War Zone and picked up across the defence press. The photographs, taken at an unidentified test airfield, give the best look yet at a...
Aviación militar, Noticias
Tras años de retrasos, reinicios de líneas de producción y suficientes dramas como para llenar una temporada de una serie de televisión de prestigio, los primeros Vipers recién salidos de fábrica en Taiwán finalmente regresan a casa. Dos aviones, con los números de cola 6727 y 6728, despegaron de Fort Worth, Texas, el 17 de...
Aviación militar, Noticias
It started before dawn. Eight strikes, one runway, and a message aimed squarely at Ankara. Overnight on 18-19 August 2026, Israeli jets cratered the Abu Duhur air base in Syria’s Idlib province, and by sunrise the diplomatic fallout was louder than the bombs....
Aviación militar, Noticias
Open-source analysts say Ukrainian forces struck the Russian airbase at Akhtubinsk in the Astrakhan region in the early hours of 20 August 2026, damaging a Su-34 fighter-bomber. The claim rests on satellite imagery circulated by OSINT channels rather than an official...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Decades before the V-22 Osprey, America built an aircraft that could lift off vertically like a helicopter, then cruise at over 400 mph like an airliner — by rotating its entire wing. It worked. It was decades ahead of its time. And almost nobody remembers it....
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
In the mid-1970s, two American planemakers built four extraordinary transport prototypes that could land almost anywhere and stop almost immediately. Both designs worked brilliantly. Both lost. And then one of them quietly went on to father one of the most successful...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Amid the Mirages, Skyhawks and Super Étendards of the 1982 Falklands War, the scrappiest Argentine aircraft of all was a stubby twin-turboprop that looked like it belonged in a different decade. The FMA IA 58 Pucará was slow, propeller-driven, and utterly outclassed...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
In June 1981, a young Israeli pilot flew the most exposed position in one of the most audacious air raids in history. Twenty-two years later, that same man carried a Torah scroll that had survived a concentration camp into orbit — and never came home. Between...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
It was a routine training flight on a grey winter afternoon. Three American airmen took off from Wiesbaden in an unarmed little jet, expecting to be back in three hours. They never came home. The shootdown of a U.S. Air Force T-39 Sabreliner over East Germany on 28...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Sometimes the most valuable aircraft is the one that proves an idea wrong. The tiny Northrop X-4 Bantam is exactly that: a jet built to test a tempting theory about the sound barrier, which flew well enough to demonstrate, conclusively, that the theory was a dead end....
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