Aviación militar, Noticias
En algún lugar del norte del mar Arábigo, un superportaaviones de propulsión nuclear de 100.000 toneladas está haciendo algo que ningún buque de guerra estadounidense ha hecho en la era moderna: simplemente no se detiene. El USS Abraham Lincoln zarpó de San Diego antes de Navidad, tocó un muelle exactamente una vez y...
Aviación militar, Noticias
Justo después del amanecer del 10 de julio, diez F-22 Raptor descendieron del cielo inglés y aterrizaron en la pista de la RAF Fairford con el indicativo TREND. Parecían haber estado en guerra. Y es que, en efecto, lo habían estado. Se trataba de los cazas del 1.er Ala de Caza del Escuadrón Conjunto...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Here is a riddle the Pentagon wrote by accident and never quite solved. In December 2005 the U.S. Air Force fielded the most fearsome air superiority fighter ever built — the Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor — expressly to retire the aging McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle. Two...
Aviación militar, Noticias
La aeronave que más preocupa a los comandantes de bases aéreas estadounidenses en 2026 no es un caza furtivo chino ni un bombardero ruso. Es un cuadricóptero eléctrico que cuesta menos que una computadora portátil usada, y no hay nada que impida que uno hostil sobrevuele el perímetro de una base...
Mundo de la aviación, Aviación militar, Noticias
The most expensive gift in the history of aviation sat gleaming on the ramp in Turkey — and the President of the United States walked straight past it. On 8 July, barely a day after American bombs fell on Iran, Donald Trump boarded the old Air Force One, the...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Before dawn on 1 August 1943, the desert around Benghazi coughed itself awake. One hundred and seventy-eight B-24 Liberators, engines scoured half to death by Libyan sand, staggered off the runways with 3,100 US gallons (11,700 litres) of fuel and full bomb bays. More...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
At 22:47 on 24 April 1980, a blacked-out MC-130 thumped down on a salt flat 200 miles (320 km) southeast of Tehran, and the most secret mission in America promptly met the public. Headlights. A Mercedes bus, forty-plus Iranian civilians aboard, rolling straight...
Aviación militar, Noticias
Last week we walked you through the sustainment data fight simmering between Boeing and the Air Force over the T-7A Red Hawk. Seven days later, the Government Accountability Office showed up with receipts. GAO’s Weapon Systems Annual Assessment, released July 2...
Aviación militar, Noticias
Six years ago the United States took Turkey’s F-35s away. The jets Ankara had already paid for went into storage in the Arizona desert, Turkish pilots were sent home from Luke Air Force Base, and roughly 100 stealth fighters on order evaporated. On Tuesday,...
Aviación militar, Noticias
Eighty targets. One night. That is CENTCOM’s answer to Iran shooting at oil tankers again. Overnight into Wednesday, US forces worked their way down a target list across southern Iran: air defense systems, command-and-control networks, coastal radar sites,...
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