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.
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
Das Pentagon hat entschieden, dass der nächste Krieg durch Rechenleistung gewonnen wird. Nicht durch eine Handvoll hochentwickelter, millionenschwerer Raketen, sondern durch Tausende billiger – genug, um jede jemals gebaute Luftverteidigung zu überfordern. Am 16. Juli unterzeichnete das Kriegsministerium einen mehrjährigen Rahmenvertrag….
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
For two years the jets sat in a hangar at Eglin Air Force Base while engineers tore into their airframes and taught them to think. This week one of them finally flew — and for stretches of that flight, no human was flying it.The U.S. Air Force and DARPA have put...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
Somewhere over the Mojave Desert this month, an aircraft with no pilot, no ejection seat and no name stenciled under a canopy did something no American drone had ever done. It fired an air-to-air missile at a target. The jet was Anduril’s YFQ-44A Fury. The weapon was...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
For two decades, the taxpayers who foot the bill for the most expensive weapon in human history got one honest annual accounting of it: the Government Accountability Office’s yearly review of the F-35. This year, the Pentagon locked it in a drawer. The GAO confirmed...
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