Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
Iran has turned a hole in the ground into a trophy case. This week the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps threw open an underground “exhibition” of American and Israeli aircraft it says its air defences knocked out of the sky. The centrepiece is a mangled...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
In 1913, while the rest of the world was still coaxing flimsy single-engine biplanes into the air for a few shaky minutes, a 24-year-old Russian rolled out an aircraft with four engines, a heated passenger lounge, electric lighting, and a washroom. It was called the...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
In the middle of the Second World War, one of the most famous psychologists in America proposed a guidance system for bombs that used no radar, no gyroscopes, and no vacuum tubes. It used pigeons. Live ones. Riding inside the nose of the bomb.The astonishing part is...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
In January 1942, a month after Pearl Harbor, a Pennsylvania dentist named Lytle S. Adams sat down and wrote a letter to the White House. His plan to win the war was simple: strap tiny incendiary bombs to a million bats and drop them on Tokyo.It should have gone...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
Look closely at the tail of the Spitfire and something is wrong — gloriously, deliberately wrong. Beside the familiar red-white-blue fin flash of the Royal Air Force sits a five-pointed communist red star. This is a British fighter, in British service, flying...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
Monatelang verlief die Geschichte in die falsche Richtung. Polen wollte seine letzten MiG-29-Kampfjets verschrotten, anstatt sie an die Ukraine abzugeben – ein Drohnen-gegen-Kampfjets-Deal schien gescheitert. Am 7. August 2026 wendete sich das Blatt. Der ukrainische Botschafter in Polen, Vasyl Bodnar, ….
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
Frankreich hat gehandelt. Am 6. August 2026 übermittelte Dassault Aviation Neu-Delhi ein formelles technisch-kommerzielles Angebot für 114 Rafale-Kampfflugzeuge – die lang erwartete Antwort auf Indiens Ausschreibung für Mehrzweckkampfflugzeuge (MRFA) und eine der größten Einzelbestellungen von Kampfflugzeugen….
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
An extension to The Race for the Bomb, our focus series. Before the Enola Gay could take off from Tinian, the bomb had to reach Tinian — and the ship that carried it never came home. This is the story of USS Indianapolis: the secret cargo, the twelve minutes, the four...
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