Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
It is a Saturday morning over the East Sea, and on a Korean radar screen the blips appear early — a cluster of them, more than ten military aircraft, Chinese and Russian, moving in sequence toward the edge of the country’s watch. Inside an air operations...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
The most expensive fighter program in history just handed the U.S. Marine Corps six brand-new stealth jets that cannot see. In place of their radar, each F-35B carries a chunk of dead weight bolted into the nose to keep the jet balanced. The Marines accepted them...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
Am 25. Juni 2026 startete im Flugzeugwerk Irkutsk ein zweisitziges Flugzeug, das seit zwei Jahrzehnten zur Pilotenausbildung eingesetzt wird, zu einem rund 50-minütigen Testflug. Es erreichte eine Höhe von maximal 2.000 Metern und hielt seine Geschwindigkeit unter 600 km/h.
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
It is 4:30 in the morning, Eastern time, and the M/T Kiku is doing what tankers have done through the Strait of Hormuz for a century — threading the world’s most important oil chokepoint with more than two million barrels of crude in her belly. Then a...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
In the early 1950s, the U.S. Navy asked an audacious question: what if a jet fighter did not need a runway, or even an aircraft carrier? What if it could simply take off from the open sea? Convair’s answer was one of the strangest warplanes ever flown — a delta-winged...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
Picture the view from the cockpit. The sea is a grey blur a hundred feet below, ripping past at well over 500 knots. The horizon barely moves; the world is a tunnel of speed. Most aircraft, this low and this fast, would be a snarling, twitchy handful, fighting their...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
At the Farnborough air show in 1953, the crowd hears it before they see it. Ten engines, building from a hum to a roar, and then the largest all-metal flying boat ever built slides overhead — a silver whale of an aircraft, a 219-foot wing, an ocean liner that...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
Es ist der 21. Oktober 1929, und 169 Menschen stehen kurz davor, etwas zu vollbringen, was noch nie zuvor einer Gruppe von Menschen gelungen ist: gemeinsam in einem einzigen Flugzeug abzuheben. Auf der Oberfläche des Bodensees befindet sich der Grund dafür – ein Flugboot von solch gewaltigen Ausmaßen, dass die Männer, die seine Motoren warten, ….
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
On the morning of 2 September 1958, a four-engined transport drones eastward through the clear sky near the Turkish-Soviet border. To anyone who glanced up, it is just a C-130 Hercules — an unglamorous cargo hauler. It is not. Tail number 60528 is packed with...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
It is the morning of 7 January 1991, and Dick Cheney is about to do something a Defense Secretary almost never does. Standing at the Pentagon podium, the war in the Persian Gulf only days away, he announces that he is killing one of the Navy’s most important...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
There are 21 B-2 Spirits in the world, and on any given day most of them are sitting in climate-controlled hangars in Missouri. So when one of these $2-billion flying wings turns up on the far side of the planet, it is never a coincidence. It is a message. This month...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
Trotz all ihrer hochentwickelten Technologie birgt die F-35 ein heikles Geheimnis: Sie konnte kein Schiff versenken, ohne ihre berühmteste Eigenschaft zu gefährden. Jede Rakete, die groß genug war, um ein modernes Kriegsschiff zu bedrohen, musste unter den Tragflächen angebracht werden – und sobald dies geschah, ….
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