Corea contra Italia: La guerra de entrenadores en el sudeste asiático
Two T-50i Golden Eagles arrived at Iswahjudi Air Base in East Java in early March, flown in pieces inside a Boeing 747 freighter and reassembled on the ground. Fuselage, wings, vertical tail, engine — each component traveled separately across more than 700 kilometers...
Two-Kilo Missile Downs a Kamikaze Drone
Somewhere in northern Germany on March 30, a small drone the size of a dinner table locked onto a kamikaze UAV streaking toward its target. Without any human input, it classified the threat, selected a weapon, and fired. The missile — weighing less than two kilograms...
Verde quirúrgico a Mach 2: El misterio de la cabina del MiG-21
Al entrar en la cabina de un MiG-21, lo primero que llama la atención no es la claustrofóbica cúpula ni la pared de indicadores analógicos. Es el color. Cada superficie —el marco del panel de instrumentos, las consolas laterales, los rieles de la cúpula— está pintada en un llamativo tono de...
Por qué lo llaman la Víbora
Most aircraft are designed to fly straight and level by default. Take your hands off the controls and they glide on, stable, content, reassuring. The F-16 Fighting Falcon is not like most aircraft. Take your hands off the controls in an F-16 and it will try to kill...
Operation Bolo: The Trap That Broke North Vietnam’s Air Force
January 2, 1967. Colonel Robin Olds — World War II ace, Vietnam War wing commander, and possibly the most dangerous man ever to strap into a fighter jet — had a problem. North Vietnam’s MiG-21s were shooting down American aircraft with near impunity. The rules...
The Enemy Pilot Who Escorted Us Home
Franz Stigler had one kill to go. One more aircraft, and he would earn the Knight’s Cross — the highest military honour the Luftwaffe could bestow. He had fought across North Africa and was now flying Bf 109s over Germany, defending the Reich from the waves of...
La cola que conquistó MiG Alley
In the summer of 1951, American F-86A pilots over North Korea were dying. Not because the MiG-15 was faster. Not because the North Korean and Chinese pilots were better. They were dying because at around Mach 0.86 — the speed at which the Sabre’s tail control...
1.842 nudos: La famosa prueba de velocidad del SR-71
A trece millas sobre el sur de California, moviéndose aproximadamente una milla cada dos segundos, el mayor Brian Shul y su oficial de reconocimiento en el asiento trasero, Walt, monitoreaban las comunicaciones de radio del Centro de Los Ángeles cuando comenzó el espectáculo. Un piloto de Cessna había solicitado una señal de tierra...
Japan’s EC-2 Electronic Warfare Jet — Nicknamed the ‘Platypus’ — Takes Its First Flight
Japan’s newest and most unusual-looking military aircraft — the Kawasaki EC-2 stand-off jammer, nicknamed the “Platypus” for its ungainly but purpose-built shape — completed its maiden flight on March 17, 2026, lifting off from Gifu Air Base at 11:30...
B-52 Spotted Testing America’s Next Nuclear Cruise Missile — The AGM-181 LRSO
A B-52H Stratofortress has been photographed in flight over California carrying two inert examples of the AGM-181 Long-Range Standoff (LRSO) missile — the nuclear-armed weapon system designed to replace the United States’ aging AGM-86 Air Launched Cruise Missile...
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