Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
A modest airbase in southeastern Bulgaria has become the newest point of friction between Tehran and the West — and the cause is not a bomber or a stealth fighter, but a fleet of ageing flying petrol stations.In late July 2026, Bulgaria’s parliament approved the...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
A month ago, the U.S. Air Force cleared its first two “fighter drones” for production. This week, the factories actually started building them — and one of them dropped a letter from its name.On 27 July 2026, the first Ohio-built Fury rolled off...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
On 29 July 2026, the Ukrainian Air Force reported the loss of an F-16 during a combat mission to intercept Russian air targets. The pilot ejected and survived.According to the Air Force, controllers lost contact with the aircraft while it was engaged over one section...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
At about 2:30 in the afternoon on 30 July 2026, sensors along South Korea’s border with the North picked up something they couldn’t identify: an unmanned aircraft, near a frontline outpost, not squawking anything friendly. In the most heavily militarised...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
On 29 July 2026, at Korea Aerospace Industries’ plant in Sacheon, South Korea did something only a handful of nations have ever managed: it declared its own supersonic fighter finished. The KF-21 Boramae — “young hawk” — is officially through...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
Over the pine forests of the Gironde, a shape far too large to be a water bomber banks low, opens its rear cargo ramp, and lets a red cascade of retardant fall across the treetops. This is no yellow Canadair. It is an Airbus A400M Atlas, the biggest tactical airlifter...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
For the first year of the Pacific war, the Mitsubishi A6M Zero had a kind of spell over Allied pilots. It turned tighter, climbed better and reached farther than anything the US Navy could put up against it, and the men flying the stubby F4F Wildcat learned to survive...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
On 29 July 2026, Japan launched fighter jets over the East China Sea after picking up a suspected airspace violation. Then the Ministry of Defense did what it usually does with these events: said almost nothing.No aircraft type was named. No confirmation of whether...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
For sixty years, the sight of a C-2A Greyhound turning onto final told a carrier crew everything they needed to know: the mail was here, the spare part was here, the Sailor going home was here. On 28 July 2026, that homely twin-turboprop made the sound one last time...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
Ein Verkehrsflugzeug wird durch seine Hydraulik gesteuert. Sie bewegt die Querruder, die Höhenruder, das Seitenruder – alle Steuerflächen, die die Piloten berühren. Würde man all das entfernen, wäre das Flugzeug theoretisch zu einem unsteuerbaren Geschoss geworden. Am 22. November 2003 verunglückte eine DHL-Frachtbesatzung...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
Grumman hatte sich zum Ziel gesetzt, den besten Trägerjäger des Zweiten Weltkriegs zu bauen: ein zweimotoriges Ungetüm, das alles am Himmel überflügeln und übertreffen und die Bombenlast eines Bombers vom Flugdeck transportieren konnte. Und es gelang. Die Tigercat war rasend schnell, brutal...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
Irgendwo im schlammigen Flachwasser des Wassaw Sound vor der Küste Georgias liegt eine 7.600 Pfund schwere Wasserstoffbombe. Die US-Luftwaffe warf sie dort 1958 ab, suchte zehn Wochen lang danach, gab die Suche auf und ließ sie seither unberührt. Sie ist eine von wenigen amerikanischen...
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