Korea gegen Italien: Der Trainerkrieg in Südostasien
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...
Zwei-Kilo-Rakete schießt Kamikaze-Drohne ab
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...
Chirurgisches Grün bei Mach 2: Das Cockpit-Rätsel der MiG-21
Betritt man das Cockpit einer MiG-21, fällt einem nicht als Erstes die beengte Kabinenhaube oder die Wand aus analogen Instrumenten auf. Es ist die Farbe. Jede Oberfläche – der Rahmen des Instrumentenbretts, die Seitenkonsolen, die Führungsschienen der Kabinenhaube – ist in einem markanten Farbton lackiert ….
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...
Japan’s EC-2 Electronic Warfare Jet — Nicknamed the ‘Platypus’ — Takes Its First Flight
Japan’s newest and most unusual-looking military aircraft — the Kawasaki EC-2 stand-off jammer, nicknamed the “Platypus” for its ungainly but purpose-built shape — completed its maiden flight on March 17, 2026, lifting off from Gifu Air Base at 11:30...
B-52 Spotted Testing America’s Next Nuclear Cruise Missile — The AGM-181 LRSO
A B-52H Stratofortress has been photographed in flight over California carrying two inert examples of the AGM-181 Long-Range Standoff (LRSO) missile — the nuclear-armed weapon system designed to replace the United States’ aging AGM-86 Air Launched Cruise Missile...
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