Aviación militar, Noticias
Somewhere in the Pacific in the coming weeks, a US Navy cruiser that fired Tomahawks in two wars will be hit by torpedoes, missiles and bombs until she slips under — and the people shooting will be her friends. The decommissioned USS Mobile Bay is about to become the...
Aviación militar, Noticias
Among the tall ships and grey hulls that filled New York Harbor for America’s 250th birthday, the strangest silhouette wasn’t a ship at all. Lashed to the flight deck of USS Nimitz, between rows of Super Hornets, sat a windowless grey machine with folded wings and no...
Mundo de la aviación, Aviación militar, Noticias
On July 4, virtually everything in the US military that flies made an appearance over Washington. Three bombers in one formation. Eight Thunderbirds. A brand-new Air Force One with a Raptor escort. The one aircraft everybody on the internet was actually waiting for...
Aviación militar, Noticias
El termómetro marcaba más de 100 grados Fahrenheit, la multitud en el National Mall llevaba sofocada desde la mañana, y en algún lugar por encima de la bruma, cuatro F-5 Tiger se colocaban en formación. Uno de ellos era pilotado por el propio administrador de la NASA. Eran las 13:14 del...
Aviación militar, Noticias
The AGM-86B was designed when the Soviet Union still existed, gas cost about a dollar a gallon, and the B-52 crews loading it were younger than the bomber. More than four decades later, the United States has decided it cannot let the missile retire just yet. In 2026,...
Mundo de la aviación, Noticias
Bangkok has two airports, and for years the glamorous international arrivals went to just one of them. On July 1, 2026, flydubai bet on the other. Dubai’s low-cost carrier launched a daily service to Don Mueang — Bangkok’s original airport and now the largest low-cost...
Aviación militar, Noticias
Two companies. One contract. Decades of consequences. Sometime around August 2026, the US Navy is expected to decide who will build the F/A-XX — its sixth-generation carrier fighter and one of the most important American aircraft programmes of the century. The choice...
Mundo de la aviación, Noticias
Cada mes de julio, un rincón tranquilo de Gloucestershire se convierte en el aeródromo militar más concurrido del mundo. Aviones de combate, bombarderos y equipos acrobáticos de decenas de naciones llenan la pista de la base aérea de RAF Fairford para el Royal International Air Tattoo, el mayor espectáculo aéreo militar del mundo.
Aviación militar, Noticias
For twenty years, the Western answer to Chinese air power was simple: our jets are better. The F-22 and F-35 out-sense, out-stealth and out-network anything Beijing could field. That may still be true of any single aircraft. It may also be about to stop mattering....
Aviación militar, Noticias
Durante décadas, una regla ha permanecido silenciosamente en el centro del poder aéreo occidental: un ser humano decide cuándo un arma mata. El 30 de junio de 2026, Gran Bretaña se alejó de ella. Oculto en un ambicioso Plan de Inversión en Defensa —más de 5 mil millones de libras esterlinas para drones, el mayor de su tipo...
Mundo de la aviación, Noticias
Somewhere on the ramp at Paine Field in Washington State sit rows of enormous, finished airliners with nowhere to go. They are Boeing 777Xs — the biggest twinjets ever built — and most of them have never carried a paying passenger. In 2026 they are still waiting,...
Aviación militar, Noticias
Durante meses, el programa de cazas más ambicioso de Europa tuvo un gran obstáculo: la financiación. El 3 de julio de 2026, ese obstáculo se solucionó. El Reino Unido, Italia y Japón firmaron un contrato de 4.600 millones de libras esterlinas (1.544.560 millones de dólares) para impulsar su avión de combate de sexta generación...
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