Aviación militar, Noticias
Todo comienza, como suele suceder en estos casos, no con un misil, sino con una computadora portátil. En algún lugar de la cavernosa bodega de carga de un A400M Atlas francés —una bodega construida para albergar un helicóptero o un vehículo blindado de 37 toneladas— un operador pronto se sentará frente a una consola, observando los sensores...
Aviación militar, Noticias
Somewhere off the coast of Oman, in the dark, two U.S. Army aviators are treading water. Their AH-64 Apache is gone — minutes ago it was flying a patrol near the mouth of the Strait of Hormuz, and now it is at the bottom of the Gulf. They are alive, but they are in...
Aviación militar, Noticias
Two-star generals do not usually gang up on Congress. This spring, twenty-two of them did. In a single letter to the House and Senate appropriators, every adjutant general who commands an Air National Guard fighter unit signed the same blunt verdict: the United States...
Mundo de la aviación, Noticias
On the first morning of June, an Air Canada jet pushed back at Montreal and pointed its nose at Nantes, a tidy French city on the Loire that no Canadian airline had ever served nonstop. Two days later, a widebody lifted off from Toronto bound for Shanghai for the...
Aviación militar, Noticias
Si uno recorre la línea de exposición estática de ILA Berlín, espera la coreografía habitual alrededor de un helicóptero: un piloto abrochándose el cinturón, un jefe de tripulación haciendo señales, el lento zumbido de un motor Arriel acelerando. Este junio, Airbus aparcó algo más extraño bajo el sol de Brandeburgo. El...
Aviación militar, Noticias
Es sábado por la mañana sobre el Mar del Este, y en la pantalla de un radar coreano aparecen los puntos temprano: un grupo de ellos, más de diez aeronaves militares, chinas y rusas, moviéndose en secuencia hacia el límite de la vigilancia del país. Dentro de un centro de operaciones aéreas...
Mundo de la aviación, Noticias
A small white jet with a chequered flag down its flank taxied to a stop outside the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center on a bright Saturday in June, and a 9-year-old’s dream from 1962 finally landed. The pilot who climbed down was Ed Noel. The aircraft was...
Aviación militar, Noticias
The most expensive fighter program in history just handed the U.S. Marine Corps six brand-new stealth jets that cannot see. In place of their radar, each F-35B carries a chunk of dead weight bolted into the nose to keep the jet balanced. The Marines accepted them...
Aviación militar, Noticias
At the Irkutsk Aviation Plant on 25 June 2026, a two-seat jet that has spent two decades teaching student pilots how to fly lifted off on a roughly 50-minute sortie, climbed no higher than 2,000 metres (about 6,600 ft) and held its speed below 600 km/h (around 370...
Mundo de la aviación, Noticias
On a Friday afternoon in Shanghai, executives from China Eastern Airlines and Airbus signed their names to a document that quietly reshapes the balance of power in the world’s most fought-over aviation market. The deal: 25 brand-new Airbus A330-900neo widebodies, with...
Aviación militar, Noticias
It is 4:30 in the morning, Eastern time, and the M/T Kiku is doing what tankers have done through the Strait of Hormuz for a century — threading the world’s most important oil chokepoint with more than two million barrels of crude in her belly. Then a...
Aviación militar, Noticias
There are 21 B-2 Spirits in the world, and on any given day most of them are sitting in climate-controlled hangars in Missouri. So when one of these $2-billion flying wings turns up on the far side of the planet, it is never a coincidence. It is a message. This month...
Comentarios recientes