Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
Before AWACS, air warfare was a knife fight in a dark room. Pilots relied on their own radar, ground controllers with limited visibility, and radio calls that were often confused, late, or wrong. After AWACS, one side had the lights on and the other did not. The...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
North Korea operates one of the largest air forces in the world on paper. The Korean People’s Army Air Force (KPAAF) fields an estimated 550–570 combat aircraft, over 300 transport and utility helicopters, and approximately 110,000 personnel. By numbers alone,...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
The Republic XF-84H Thunderscreech is widely considered the loudest aircraft ever built. Its supersonic propeller generated continuous sonic booms that could be heard 25 miles away, made ground crews physically ill, and reportedly knocked a man unconscious on the...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
At 2:38 a.m. on January 17, 1991, eight AH-64 Apache helicopters crossed into Iraqi airspace at treetop height. Their mission: destroy two early-warning radar stations that would blind Iraq to what was coming next. Within minutes, the stations were burning wreckage....
Luftfahrtwelt, Geschichte & Legenden
The de Havilland Comet was the most beautiful airliner ever built. It was also the most deadly — and its failures saved more lives than any single aircraft in history. We’ve written about the Comet before — see our earlier piece on its legacy. This article...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
In the late 1950s, both superpowers reached the same conclusion: the future of strategic bombing was speed. Build a bomber that flies at Mach 3 and nothing can catch it. No interceptor, no missile, no air defence system could touch an aircraft crossing the sky at...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
At ILA Berlin, Airbus pulled the covers off a long, dark shape with knife-thin wings and no cockpit — and gave Europe its clearest look yet at the robot fighter it wants to send to war alongside its pilots. The aircraft is the U-760 Ravenstorm, an uncrewed...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
It has no tail, three engines, and a planform like a stingray crossed with a stealth bomber. It is the most radical-looking combat aircraft on Earth — and it is Chinese. Grainy photographs of Chengdu’s tailless giant, widely dubbed the J-36, keep leaking out of China,...
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