Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
Quick Facts Program: Undergraduate Jet Training System (UJTS) Replacing: Boeing T-45C Goshawk (in service since 1991) Aircraft needed: 216 new jet trainers EMD cost cap: ~$1.8 billion Contract award: March 2027 Competitors: Boeing T-7B, Lockheed/KAI TF-50N, Leonardo...
Geschichte & Legenden, Nachricht
Quick Facts Who: Col. Clarence E. “Bud” Anderson (1922–2024) Record: 16¼ aerial victories — triple ace, 357th Fighter Group Aircraft: P-51 Mustang “Old Crow” Missions: 116 combat missions, never hit by enemy fire Ceremony: March 30, 2026,...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
The T-45 Goshawk has been teaching Navy and Marine Corps pilots how to fly jets since 1991. Now, after more than three decades of carrier touch-and-goes, hard landings, and thousands of freshly winged aviators, the little British-designed trainer is getting a...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
What does it take to become a flying ace — the most feared, most celebrated kind of warrior the modern age has ever produced? Starting tomorrow, April 1st, MiGFlug is publishing a new daily series: 34 profiles of the greatest fighter aces in history, one every day...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
At the Future Investment Priority Summit in Miami on March 28, Donald Trump made it official: “For the very first time, we agreed to sell Saudi Arabia perhaps the most capable fighter jet ever built, the F-35.” With that sentence, the stealth monopoly in...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
For years it existed only in grainy satellite photos and rumors on Chinese military forums. Then, in September 2025, China rolled it out at a Victory Day parade in Beijing. Now, for the first time, Japan has intercepted one in the wild — and the implications stretch...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
A nighttime photograph released by the Israeli Air Force on March 29 shows a pair of F-16I Sufas taxiing for another strike mission against Iran. The jets are loaded heavy. But the weapons hanging under their wings aren’t the precision-guided JDAMs or Rampage...
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