Luftfahrtwelt, Militärische Luftfahrt
An AIM-120 AMRAAM costs about a million dollars. An AIM-9X Sidewinder costs around $450,000. A Shahed-type one-way attack drone costs perhaps $20,000 to $50,000, and Iran and its partners can build them faster than anyone can afford to shoot them down with...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
Farnborough has been running since 1948. The Boeing MQ-28 Ghost Bat first flew in 2021. On Monday, finally, the two met. Australia’s uncrewed combat aircraft made its Farnborough debut on the show’s opening day — on static display, in the US Department of...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
The model sitting under the lights on Anduril’s stand at Farnborough on Monday morning does not look like anything currently in the US Army inventory. It has two enormous tilting rotors, a fuselage shaped like a stretched teardrop, and where a cockpit should be...
Luftfahrtwelt, Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
A reporter at Joint Base Andrews on Sunday evening asked President Trump a direct question: the Qatari jet he is now flying as Air Force One does not have antimissile defences, so why is he flying it? The answer confirmed what aviation and security specialists have...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
Every argument about autonomous combat aircraft eventually arrives at the same question, and it is not a technical one. It is whether the person in the cockpit will trust the thing flying off their wing. Frank Kendall, who ran the US Air Force as its Secretary from...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
Two weeks ago the story was aircraft going home. Raptors leaving the Gulf for England, squadrons rotating out, a ceasefire holding well enough that the US Air Force felt comfortable thinning out its presence in the region. That lasted about as long as it took to write...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
In the autumn of 1980, American engineers strapped thirty rockets to a C-130 Hercules. The plan was insane and deadly serious: fly the four-engine transport into a soccer stadium in the middle of Tehran, stop it inside the length of the pitch, load fifty-two American...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
Three years ago, Neros was two former teenage drone racers in a workshop. This week the U.S. Army handed the startup a contract worth up to $500 million to build first-person-view attack drones — the cheap, expendable weapons that have rewritten the rules of war in...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
For years, one of the more futuristic rumours about America’s new stealth bomber was that it might not need much of a crew at all — that the B-21 Raider could fly with a single pilot, or eventually none. This month the Air Force put that speculation to rest with a...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
Das teuerste Verteidigungsprojekt in der amerikanischen Geschichte hat nun einen Namen. Am 17. Juli 2026 bestätigte der Senat General Michael A. Guetlein von der Space Force als Leiter von Golden Dome – Präsident Trumps Plan, einen Raketenschutzschild über die gesamten Vereinigten Staaten zu errichten.
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
Ein Öltanker befand sich auf dem Weg durch internationale Gewässer in Richtung Iran, als ein US-Flugzeug Hellfire-Raketen in seinen Schornstein abfeuerte. Das Schiff stoppte. Es handelte sich, ganz klar, um eine mit Luftstreitkräften durchgesetzte Blockade – und das geschieht regelmäßig.
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