Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
Irgendwo im nördlichen Arabischen Meer vollbringt ein 100.000 Tonnen schwerer, atomgetriebener Flugzeugträger etwas, was noch keinem amerikanischen Kriegsschiff in der Neuzeit gelungen ist: Er hält einfach nicht an. Die USS Abraham Lincoln verließ San Diego vor Weihnachten, berührte genau einmal einen Pier und hat seitdem...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
Just after first light on July 10, ten F-22 Raptors dropped out of the English sky and rolled onto the runway at RAF Fairford under the callsign TREND. They looked like they had been to war. That is because they had. These were the 1st Fighter Wing’s jets from Joint...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
Here is a riddle the Pentagon wrote by accident and never quite solved. In December 2005 the U.S. Air Force fielded the most fearsome air superiority fighter ever built — the Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor — expressly to retire the aging McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle. Two...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
The aircraft that worries American air base commanders most in 2026 is not a Chinese stealth fighter or a Russian bomber. It is a battery-powered quadcopter that costs less than a used laptop, and there is nothing to stop a hostile one from buzzing the fence line of a...
Luftfahrtwelt, Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
The most expensive gift in the history of aviation sat gleaming on the ramp in Turkey — and the President of the United States walked straight past it. On 8 July, barely a day after American bombs fell on Iran, Donald Trump boarded the old Air Force One, the...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
Before dawn on 1 August 1943, the desert around Benghazi coughed itself awake. One hundred and seventy-eight B-24 Liberators, engines scoured half to death by Libyan sand, staggered off the runways with 3,100 US gallons (11,700 litres) of fuel and full bomb bays. More...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
At 22:47 on 24 April 1980, a blacked-out MC-130 thumped down on a salt flat 200 miles (320 km) southeast of Tehran, and the most secret mission in America promptly met the public. Headlights. A Mercedes bus, forty-plus Iranian civilians aboard, rolling straight...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
Last week we walked you through the sustainment data fight simmering between Boeing and the Air Force over the T-7A Red Hawk. Seven days later, the Government Accountability Office showed up with receipts. GAO’s Weapon Systems Annual Assessment, released July 2...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
Six years ago the United States took Turkey’s F-35s away. The jets Ankara had already paid for went into storage in the Arizona desert, Turkish pilots were sent home from Luke Air Force Base, and roughly 100 stealth fighters on order evaporated. On Tuesday,...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
Achtzig Ziele. Eine Nacht. Das ist die Antwort des US-Zentralkommandos auf die erneuten Angriffe des Irans auf Öltanker. In der Nacht zum Mittwoch arbeiteten sich US-Streitkräfte eine Liste von Zielen im Süden Irans ab: Luftverteidigungssysteme, Führungs- und Kontrollnetzwerke, Küstenradarstationen ….
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