Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
Somewhere over western Maryland on Saturday, a private pilot was having an ordinary flight — right up until a fighter jet appeared off the wingtip. Around 12:20 p.m. on 20 June 2026, a small general-aviation aircraft wandered into a Temporary Flight Restriction...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
Das meiste, was eine Luftwaffe im Geheimen unternimmt, bleibt geheim. Gelegentlich jedoch gerät eine Drohne am helllichten Tag an einem Fotografen vorbei. Genau das geschah auf dem RAF-Flugplatz Akrotiri, wo das britische Verteidigungsministerium nun offizielle Fotos seiner neuesten Drohne veröffentlicht hat.
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
Here is America’s hypersonic problem in one sentence: the missiles work, but the factory doesn’t. The United States has spent years and billions proving it can build weapons that scream through the sky at more than five times the speed of sound. What it...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
Die Jagd auf moderne U-Boote zählt zu den anspruchsvollsten Aufgaben der Militärluftfahrt. Sie bedeutet stundenlanges, geduldiges und treibstoffintensives Umkreisen des leeren Ozeans, in der Hoffnung auf einen Kontakt, der vielleicht nie eintritt. Es ist genau die Art von eintöniger, anstrengender und wenig glamouröser Arbeit, die...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
The opening chapter of Wings of War — From Zeppelin to Sixth Generation, our series on how military aviation was invented, one breakthrough at a time.It is the first of November, 1911, and a young Italian lieutenant named Giulio Gavotti is flying a flimsy Etrich...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
In a hangar outside Bengaluru, the most important aircraft India has built in a generation is being readied for the moment that matters most: leaving the ground. The Tejas Mk2 — bigger, sharper and far more capable than the little fighter that shares its name...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
A catapult launch is one of the most violent things in aviation: zero to flying speed in two seconds, a punch that rattles teeth and bends steel. The General Atomics Mojave skips it entirely. This is a drone big enough to carry missiles — and it can lumber off...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
Pull the throttle into afterburner and the jet that climbs away from the crowd is scarlet and white, the colours of the Danish flag wrapped around a screaming F-16. For two seasons, E-006 — the “Dannebrog” jet — has been the star of...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
On a grey June morning at the ILA Berlin air show, the most ambitious warplane Europe never built quietly ceased to exist. The Future Combat Air System — FCAS, or SCAF to the French — was meant to give France, Germany and Spain a sixth-generation fighter...
Im Inneren von MiGFlug, Militärische Luftfahrt
“I feel the need — the need for speed.” “Talk to me, Goose.” Four decades after Top Gun first lit up the screen, those lines still make grown adults want to sprint to the nearest aircraft carrier. And almost all of them, sooner or later,...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
Picture a small wooden crate, about the size of a car’s trunk, dropped by parachute into a field. A man runs to it, opens it, and pulls out what looks like a deflated grey rubber raft. He works a pump for about five minutes. The shapeless bundle swells,...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
On 20 June 1951, over the dry lakebed at Edwards Air Force Base, test pilot Jean “Skip” Ziegler did something no pilot had ever done. As his stubby little research jet, the Bell X-5, climbed away from the desert floor, he reached for a control and the...
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