Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
On the last day of 1986, a sleek new fighter lifted off from a runway in Israel and climbed into a clear desert sky. It handled beautifully. It was, by many accounts, world-class. Eight months later, its own government voted to kill it — by a single vote. The...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
It looked like a beer barrel with wings, and the Swedes said so themselves — they called it Flygande Tunnan, the “Flying Barrel.” But behind that comical shape hid a serious pioneer: the first swept-wing fighter to enter squadron service anywhere in...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Line the Tupolev Tu-128 up next to the bombers it was built to shoot down, and you might struggle to tell the hunter from the prey. At nearly 30 metres long and around 43 tonnes, this Soviet interceptor was bigger and heavier than many of the aircraft it was meant to...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
In 1997, the Russian government formally cancelled the fighter that was supposed to answer the American F-22. Three years later, in front of an invited crowd at Zhukovsky, that cancelled fighter took off anyway. The Mikoyan 1.44 is one of aviation’s strangest...
Aviación militar, Noticias
On Tuesday, 18 August 2026, a very unusual crowd gathered in the sky over northern Poland and the Baltic — and every serious flight-tracker in Europe stopped to watch. In a large, U.S.-led NATO air exercise, a dense package of allied aircraft flew combat-strike,...
Aviación militar, Noticias
Una sola fotografía bastó para que internet decidiera que China había construido un espejo. Durante el fin de semana del 19 de agosto de 2026, nuevas imágenes de un caza embarcado J-35 de la Armada del Ejército Popular de Liberación en vuelo se viralizaron en los círculos de observadores militares. En lugar del habitual gris mate, el fuselaje del avión...
Aviación militar, Noticias
Una cosa es traer un avión de combate de vuelta a casa intacto. Otra muy distinta es traerlo de vuelta mirando en la dirección equivocada. En la mañana del 18 de agosto de 2026, un F-15J Eagle de la Fuerza Aérea de Autodefensa de Japón aterrizó en la pista 36L del aeropuerto de Naha, en la isla de Okinawa, y el avión...
Aviación militar, Noticias
Somewhere over Ukraine tonight, a lawnmower engine bolted to a warhead is droning toward a city. It is called a Shahed-136, Russia stamps out its own copies as the Geran-2, and it costs somewhere between twenty and fifty thousand dollars. The problem has never been...
Aviación militar, Noticias
The number barely moved, and that is precisely the point. France booked €21.24 billion in new arms-export orders in 2025, its Ministry of the Armed Forces told Parliament in the annual report published on 13 August. A shade below 2024’s €21.59 billion,...
Aviación militar, Noticias
India’s fighter problem used to be a problem you could count. Dozens of finished Tejas Mk1A airframes have sat on Hindustan Aeronautics Limited’s (HAL) lines in Nashik and Bengaluru, waiting on a single missing part, the General Electric F404 engine, from...
Aviación militar, Noticias
Todas las historias sobre drones en el flanco oriental de la OTAN este verano han terminado igual: algo cae del cielo. El 20 de agosto de 2026, Rumania cambió el guion. Esta vez, el objetivo no estaba sobrevolando la zona. Estaba en el agua, a la deriva, dirigiéndose hacia una plataforma de gas repleta de...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
The men on the beach at Hammam al-Shatt heard the sea before they heard the sky. It was a clear Tuesday morning, just after ten, the first of October 1985, and the Tunisian coast south of Tunis was doing what it always did at that hour, fishermen, a few children, the...
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