Aviación militar, Noticias
On the morning of March 31, two aircraft that barely anyone outside the electronic warfare community has heard of touched down at RAF Mildenhall in England. They had left Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Arizona the day before, refuelled at McGuire in New Jersey, and...
Aviación militar, Noticias
Two T-50i Golden Eagles arrived at Iswahjudi Air Base in East Java in early March, flown in pieces inside a Boeing 747 freighter and reassembled on the ground. Fuselage, wings, vertical tail, engine — each component traveled separately across more than 700 kilometers...
Aviación militar, Noticias
Somewhere in northern Germany on March 30, a small drone the size of a dinner table locked onto a kamikaze UAV streaking toward its target. Without any human input, it classified the threat, selected a weapon, and fired. The missile — weighing less than two kilograms...
Aviación militar, Noticias
The T-45 Goshawk has been teaching Navy and Marine Corps pilots how to fly jets since 1991. Now, after more than three decades of carrier touch-and-goes, hard landings, and thousands of freshly winged aviators, the little British-designed trainer is getting a...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
What does it take to become a flying ace — the most feared, most celebrated kind of warrior the modern age has ever produced? Starting tomorrow, April 1st, MiGFlug is publishing a new daily series: 34 profiles of the greatest fighter aces in history, one every day...
Aviación militar, Noticias
At the Future Investment Priority Summit in Miami on March 28, Donald Trump made it official: “For the very first time, we agreed to sell Saudi Arabia perhaps the most capable fighter jet ever built, the F-35.” With that sentence, the stealth monopoly in...
Aviación militar, Noticias
For years it existed only in grainy satellite photos and rumors on Chinese military forums. Then, in September 2025, China rolled it out at a Victory Day parade in Beijing. Now, for the first time, Japan has intercepted one in the wild — and the implications stretch...
Aviación militar, Noticias
A nighttime photograph released by the Israeli Air Force on March 29 shows a pair of F-16I Sufas taxiing for another strike mission against Iran. The jets are loaded heavy. But the weapons hanging under their wings aren’t the precision-guided JDAMs or Rampage...
Aviación militar, Noticias
A standard A-10 gun run lasts two to three seconds. Finger on the trigger, a controlled burst of 30mm depleted uranium rounds, then pull off target. That’s what pilots train for. That’s what the manual says. So when video surfaced from Iraq showing...
Aviación militar, Noticias
Los sistemas de seguimiento de vuelos se iluminaron durante el fin de semana cuando una formación de A-10C Thunderbolt II —con distintivo de llamada TABOR 71— cruzó el Atlántico rumbo a la base aérea de Lakenheath, en Inglaterra. Detrás de ellos, tres aviones cisterna KC-135 Stratotanker de la base aérea de Mildenhall mantenían la posición, suministrando combustible a los cazacarros.
Historia y leyendas, Dentro de MiGFlug, Aviación militar
Al entrar en la cabina de un MiG-21, lo primero que llama la atención no es la claustrofóbica cúpula ni la pared de indicadores analógicos. Es el color. Cada superficie —el marco del panel de instrumentos, las consolas laterales, los rieles de la cúpula— está pintada en un llamativo tono de...
Aviación militar, Noticias
A las 12:50 del mediodía del 29 de marzo, cuatro cazas furtivos F-35A Lightning II aterrizaron en la base aérea de Misawa, en la prefectura de Aomori, al noreste de Japón. Se dirigieron a la plataforma, con los motores apagándose y las cabinas abriéndose al frío aire del norte. Parecía una operación rutinaria. Pero no fue nada del otro mundo...
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