Iran Hits a US Air Base in Saudi Arabia
For thirty years, Prince Sultan Air Base has been the quiet backbone of U.S. air power in the Gulf — a vast installation in the Saudi desert, three hours’ drive from Riyadh, that has hosted American forces through Desert Storm, Iraqi Freedom, and every crisis in...
850 Raketen in vier Wochen: Gehen Amerika die Raketen aus?
The U.S. military has fired more than 850 Tomahawk cruise missiles at Iran in four weeks of war. That number — buried in a Military Times report on March 27 — has set off alarm bells inside the Pentagon. Not because the campaign isn’t working. But because of...
Was sind das für weiße Flecken auf dem B-2-Bomber?
Photographers watching the B-2 Spirits taxi out for another Iran mission on March 25 noticed something odd. Rows of white rectangular patches — uniformly sized, black-bordered — running along the leading edges of both wings. On two separate aircraft. Nobody at the Air...
Warum sie es die Viper nennen
Die meisten Flugzeuge sind so konstruiert, dass sie standardmäßig gerade und stabil fliegen. Nimmt man die Hände vom Steuerknüppel, gleiten sie ruhig und sicher dahin. Die F-16 Fighting Falcon ist anders. Nimmt man in einer F-16 die Hände vom Steuerknüppel, versucht sie, einen zu töten….
Operation Bolo: The Trap That Broke North Vietnam’s Air Force
January 2, 1967. Colonel Robin Olds — World War II ace, Vietnam War wing commander, and possibly the most dangerous man ever to strap into a fighter jet — had a problem. North Vietnam’s MiG-21s were shooting down American aircraft with near impunity. The rules...
The Enemy Pilot Who Escorted Us Home
Franz Stigler had one kill to go. One more aircraft, and he would earn the Knight’s Cross — the highest military honour the Luftwaffe could bestow. He had fought across North Africa and was now flying Bf 109s over Germany, defending the Reich from the waves of...
The Tail That Won MiG Alley
In the summer of 1951, American F-86A pilots over North Korea were dying. Not because the MiG-15 was faster. Not because the North Korean and Chinese pilots were better. They were dying because at around Mach 0.86 — the speed at which the Sabre’s tail control...
1,842 Knots: The SR-71’s Famous Speed Check
Thirteen miles above Southern California, moving at roughly a mile every two seconds, Major Brian Shul and his backseat reconnaissance officer Walt were monitoring Los Angeles Center radio traffic when the entertainment started. A Cessna pilot had asked for a ground...
Amerikas neue Kampfdrohnen bleiben unter dem Budget
In U.S. defence procurement, hitting your cost target is newsworthy. Beating it significantly is almost unheard of. Yet that is exactly what Air Force officials are claiming about the Collaborative Combat Aircraft programme — the effort to build autonomous drone...
One Pilot, One Fighter, One Drone Wingman: The F-22 Just Changed War
At Edwards Air Force Base in February 2026, an F-22 Raptor pilot did something no fighter pilot has done before in an official U.S. Air Force exercise: he commanded a drone wingman in combat-like conditions. From his cockpit, using a specialist interface on a tablet,...
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