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...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
The Curtiss P-40 Warhawk was never the fastest, highest-climbing, or most manoeuvrable fighter of the Second World War. What it was, in every theatre from North Africa to China to the Aleutians, was available — and in the hands of pilots who understood its strengths,...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
The Convair B-58 Hustler was the world’s first operational supersonic bomber — a Mach 2 delta-wing marvel that could outrun every interceptor of its era. It was also one of the most dangerous aircraft in the United States Air Force inventory, killing more than...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
On the morning of 3 July 1988, Iran Air Flight 655 lifted off from Bandar Abbas International Airport bound for Dubai — a routine 28-minute hop across the Strait of Hormuz. Seven minutes later, the Airbus A300 was falling out of the sky in pieces, struck by two SM-2...
Mundo de la aviación, Aviación militar
A fighter pilot pulling 7G in a turning engagement has roughly three seconds to acquire a target, compute a firing solution, and press the trigger. Looking down at cockpit instruments during those three seconds means looking away from the threat — and in air combat,...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Twenty Sea Harriers sailed south with the Royal Navy task force in April 1982. None of them should have survived. The Argentine Air Force outnumbered them five to one, flew faster jets, and operated from concrete runways while the British pilots launched from pitching...
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