Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
The future of air combat just landed on a tiny Pacific island. Boeing’s MQ-28A Ghost Bat — the autonomous combat drone that could change everything about how wars are fought in the air — touched down at a remote airfield on Rota in the Northern Mariana Islands...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
Muammar Gaddafi zog eine Linie quer durch das Mittelmeer und forderte die US-Marine heraus, sie zu überschreiten. Die Marine überschritt sie zweimal. Beide Male antworteten F-14 Tomcats. Die beiden Zwischenfälle im Golf von Sidra – 1981 und 1989 – sind die einzigen amerikanischen Luft-Luft-Abschüsse der 1980er Jahre. Sie….
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
Es ist ein grauer Morgen in Bremen, Spätsommer 1971. Auf dem Betonvorfeld steht ein gedrungenes, kleines Flugzeug, dessen Tarnung noch fabrikneu ist, die Kennung VAK 191 B prangt auf der Nase. Drei Triebwerke starten gleichzeitig, und der Lärm ist ohrenbetäubend.
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
It is just after ten in the morning on 19 June 1944, and Lieutenant (junior grade) Alexander Vraciu is hanging in the blue over the Philippine Sea, hood back, oxygen mask tight, hunting. Below and ahead of his Grumman F6F Hellcat, a loose gaggle of Japanese dive...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
It is mid-morning on 8 June 2026 at Ellington Field in Houston, and Harry “D-Day” Daye is strapping into a machine that has not left the ground in seven years. The ramp smells of jet fuel and Texas heat. Behind him sits Jerod Flohr, one of the volunteers who spent the...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
It begins, as these things often do, not with a missile but with a laptop. Somewhere in the cavernous cargo hold of a French A400M Atlas — a hold built to swallow a helicopter or a 37-tonne armoured vehicle — an operator will soon sit at a console, watching sensor...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
Somewhere off the coast of Oman, in the dark, two U.S. Army aviators are treading water. Their AH-64 Apache is gone — minutes ago it was flying a patrol near the mouth of the Strait of Hormuz, and now it is at the bottom of the Gulf. They are alive, but they are in...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
Two-star generals do not usually gang up on Congress. This spring, twenty-two of them did. In a single letter to the House and Senate appropriators, every adjutant general who commands an Air National Guard fighter unit signed the same blunt verdict: the United States...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
Walk the static line at ILA Berlin and you expect the usual choreography around a helicopter: a pilot strapping in, a crew chief signalling, the slow whine of an Arriel engine spooling up. This June, Airbus parked something stranger under the Brandenburg sun. The...
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