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
Kurzinfo: Wer: Oberst Clarence E. “Bud” Anderson (1922–2024) Bilanz: 16¼ Luftsiege – dreifacher Jagdflieger, 357. Jagdgruppe Flugzeug: P-51 Mustang “Old Crow” Einsätze: 116 Kampfeinsätze, nie von Feindfeuer getroffen Zeremonie: 30. März 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
Was braucht es, um ein Jagdflieger-Ass zu werden – die gefürchtetste und berühmteste Kriegerart der Neuzeit? Ab morgen, dem 1. April, veröffentlicht MiGFlug eine neue tägliche Serie: 34 Porträts der größten Jagdflieger-Asse der Geschichte, jeden Tag eines ….
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...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
A standard A-10 gun run lasts two to three seconds. Finger on the trigger, a controlled burst of 30mm depleted uranium rounds, then pull off target. That’s what pilots train for. That’s what the manual says. So when video surfaced from Iraq showing...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
Flight trackers lit up over the weekend as a formation of A-10C Thunderbolt IIs — callsign TABOR 71 — crossed the Atlantic toward RAF Lakenheath in England. Behind them, three KC-135 Stratotankers from RAF Mildenhall held station, feeding fuel to the tank-killers on...
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