Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
Pull the throttle into afterburner and the jet that climbs away from the crowd is scarlet and white, the colours of the Danish flag wrapped around a screaming F-16. For two seasons, E-006 — the “Dannebrog” jet — has been the star of...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
On a grey June morning at the ILA Berlin air show, the most ambitious warplane Europe never built quietly ceased to exist. The Future Combat Air System — FCAS, or SCAF to the French — was meant to give France, Germany and Spain a sixth-generation fighter...
Luftfahrtwelt, Geschichte & Legenden
On the afternoon of 3 June 1973, an enormous crowd packs the edges of Le Bourget airfield north of Paris, faces turned up to watch the star of the air show: the Soviet Union’s supersonic airliner, the Tupolev Tu-144. Its pilot, Mikhail Kozlov, has reportedly...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
When you buy a front-line fighter, you also have to solve a quieter problem: how to train the pilots who will fly it. On 16 June 2026, Canada took a major step toward an answer — and the jet it chose is Italian. On the sidelines of the G7 summit in France,...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
High over the Mediterranean on 1 June 2026, a French Rafale pushed past the speed of sound and let a missile go. The moment of separation — missile leaving the rail of a jet travelling faster than sound — is one of the most violent things a weapon can be...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
Over the flat plains of Çorlu in north-western Turkey this spring, a jet trainer and a tailless black drone flew in tight formation. Nothing unusual in that — except that no one was flying the drone. The pilot doing the commanding sat in the other aircraft entirely,...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
Jahrelang schien der Wettlauf um die Entwicklung von “Robot Wingmen” – unbemannten Kampfjets, die an der Seite menschlicher Piloten fliegen – eine amerikanische und australische Angelegenheit zu sein. Doch innerhalb einer einzigen Juniwoche meldete sich Europa zu Wort. Auf der ILA in Berlin präsentierten sich zwei sehr unterschiedliche europäische Akteure….
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
Auf den ersten Blick wirkt es wie ein Spielzeug für Reiche: ein eleganter Bombardier-Businessjet, wie er Führungskräfte zwischen den Hauptstädten befördert. Dann fallen einem die Unebenheiten auf. Eine lange Klinge, die sich über den Rumpf zieht, Blasen unter dem Bauch, eine Verkleidung, die das Heck krönt – und plötzlich ….
Luftfahrtwelt, Geschichte & Legenden
It is just after two in the morning over the mid-Atlantic, and the cockpit of an Airbus A330 has gone quiet in the worst possible way. No engine hum. No thrust. Just the thin whistle of air over an airframe weighing more than 180 tonnes, sinking toward a black ocean...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
The Alpha Scramble order reaches the quick reaction alert shelter at Šiauliai before the coffee has cooled. Two Romanian F-16s, fuelled and armed, are airborne over the grey Baltic within minutes, vectored toward an unidentified contact loitering off the...
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