Condividi questa storia. Lanciare un siluro su un sottomarino ha sempre richiesto di avvicinarsi pericolosamente. L'aereo deve volare all'incirca dove si trova il sottomarino, e un sottomarino è proprio il tipo di cosa che non gradisce essere avvicinato. La Marina degli Stati Uniti ora vuole...
Condividi questa storia L'esercito americano ha appena trasformato il suo cavallo di battaglia, il taxi per il trasporto truppe, in una piattaforma di lancio per assassini autonomi. Un filmato diffuso da Anduril il 31 agosto mostra un elicottero H-60M Black Hawk che lancia un Altius-700 da un pilone esterno, con il drone che sfreccia via...
Share this story Stand behind a jet at full power and the experience is less like hearing a machine than being shoved by one. A modern airliner engine can produce more than 100,000 pounds of thrust from a device with essentially no reciprocating parts — just a...
Share this story Kelly Johnson gave the Skunk Works the SR-71 and the U-2. But it was his successor, a chubby, wisecracking thermodynamicist named Ben Rich, who took an idea most engineers thought was absurd — an aircraft you couldn’t see on radar —...
Share this story When Bud Anderson died in May 2024 at the age of 102, America lost the last of a vanishing breed: a World War II triple ace, a man who shot down enemy aircraft in the skies over Europe and lived to tell the story for eighty years. He flew a P-51...
Share this story Some aircraft are remembered for what they did. The McDonnell F3H Demon is remembered for what it led to. Underpowered, dangerous in its early years, and saddled with one of the worst engines in naval-aviation history, the Demon nonetheless taught its...
Share this story He never became a general, never commanded a wing, and spent much of his career infuriating his superiors. Yet John Boyd may have shaped modern air combat more than any pilot who ever lived. He rewrote how fighters are flown, how they are designed,...
Condividi questa storia All'inizio degli anni '50 gli Stati Uniti, patria di Boeing e Douglas e della più potente industria aeronautica del mondo, si misero alla ricerca di un bombardiere all'estero. Acquistarono un modello britannico. Il Martin B-57 Canberra, una versione di costruzione americana del modello inglese...
Share this story On 7 April 2003, Captain Kim Campbell rolled in over Baghdad to help American soldiers pinned down near the Tigris. She put her A-10 Thunderbolt where it was needed, took the shot, and started to pull off target. Then a surface-to-air missile found...
Share this story Most warplanes of the 1950s are museum pieces or scrap. The Xian H-6 is neither. Nearly seventy years after its Soviet ancestor first flew, China is still building, flying, and continually re-arming this jet — and the latest versions are among...
Condividi questa storia All'inizio degli anni '50, l'aeronautica militare statunitense desiderava un unico velivolo in grado di salire rapidamente, individuare un bombardiere sovietico sul proprio radar e abbatterlo con una stiva piena di missili prima che raggiungesse una città americana. La risposta fu l'F-102 Delta Dagger...
Share this story There is an aeroplane in the Cold War Gallery at Dayton that the museum has deliberately not restored. Its wings are off. Its nose is crushed. The paint is scorched.The Lockheed XF-90 lost its competition, never entered production, and was officially...
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