Aviación militar, Noticias
The first eight came in before sunset on 1 July, dropping onto RAF Lakenheath’s runway one after another. The last three arrived in the dark, their names unreadable. Eleven F-15E Strike Eagles of the 48th Fighter Wing, home from the Iran air war — and...
Aviación militar, Noticias
In the spring of 2023, Poland became the first NATO country to send fighter jets to Ukraine — fourteen MiG-29s, handed over while other capitals were still debating. Three years later, the last fourteen Fulcrums in Polish service were supposed to follow them...
Aviación militar, Noticias
For fifteen years, Iron Dome has answered incoming rockets with a $50,000 interceptor. Now it has a second option on the trigger: light. Israel’s Ministry of Defense announced on 30 June that a comprehensive Iron Dome test series has, for the first time, folded...
Aviación militar, Noticias
One photo, two aircraft, and a very large hint about the future of air combat. On 1 July, Pacific Air Forces posted imagery of a US Air Force F-15EX Eagle II flying over the Philippine Sea in close formation with something no American fighter had been photographed...
Aviación militar, Noticias
At 3:30 in the morning Eastern time on 1 July, an MH-60S Sea Hawk from the aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush went into the water of the Arabian Sea. Three of the four crew members were pulled out and are in stable condition aboard the carrier. As of publication,...
Aviación militar, Noticias
The Pentagon just did something it almost never does: it took power away from the Army, Navy and Air Force all at once. In a memo dated 29 June and made public this week, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth created a single office with authority over virtually every drone...
Aviación militar, Noticias
Somewhere over the Philippine Sea on 27 June, a B-2 Spirit opened its weapons bay and released something the world had never officially seen it carry: an AGM-158C LRASM, the US military’s stealthiest anti-ship missile. The target, more than 200 nautical miles...
Aviación militar, Noticias
Durante 44 años, el profundo rugido de los Boeing E-3A Sentry que despegaban de Geilenkirchen ha sido el sonido de la OTAN vigilando sus propios cielos. Ahora, según un informe de Reuters publicado el 2 de julio, la alianza se prepara para ceder esa tarea a un avión de un país que se unió recientemente...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Durante tres décadas de la Guerra Fría, la disuasión nuclear británica se basó en las alas de tres aeronaves extraordinarias: el Vickers Valiant, el Avro Vulcan y el Handley Page Victor. Conocidos colectivamente como los bombarderos V, fueron diseñados para transportar ojivas atómicas y...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
The Handley Page Victor was the last and most advanced of Britain’s three V-bombers — and the one with the longest career. Designed to carry nuclear weapons to Moscow at high altitude, it outlived its original mission by decades, reinventing itself as the Royal...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
With 36,183 examples built, the Ilyushin Il-2 Sturmovik is the most-produced military aircraft in history — and arguably the most important ground-attack platform of the Second World War. Soviet infantry called it “the flying tank.” German soldiers called...
Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas
For more than half a century, the Boeing 747 was the largest and most recognisable commercial aircraft on Earth. From its first flight in 1969 to its final delivery in January 2023, the “Queen of the Skies” carried billions of passengers, opened...
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