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...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
On the afternoon of August 16, 1956, residents of the Los Angeles suburbs looked up to a strange and frankly alarming sight: two jet fighters chasing a lone, pilotless aircraft in tightening circles, hurling rockets at it — and missing, again and again, while the...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
At a secret airfield in the Nevada desert in the early 1980s, a test pilot lined up one of the ugliest aircraft ever built and pushed the throttles forward. It looked less like a jet than a flying shipping container — deep-bodied, boxy, with a curved back and a...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Picture an aircraft that does not sit on a runway but stands upright on its tail, nose pointed at the sky like a rocket. Around its waist spins a three-bladed wing, driven not by an engine in the fuselage but by ramjets screaming at the very tips of the blades. To...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Somewhere over central France in the late 1950s, test pilot André Turcat pushes a strange delta-winged aircraft past the speed where a normal jet engine begins to gasp for air. And that is when the Nord Griffon comes alive. Behind him, a ramjet the size of a small...
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,...
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...
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
For decades, one rule has sat quietly at the centre of Western air power: a human being decides when a weapon kills. On June 30, 2026, Britain edged away from it. Buried inside a sweeping Defence Investment Plan — more than £5 billion for drones, the largest such...
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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