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Radar Warning Receivers: How a Fighter Knows It Is Being Hunted
1+ day, 7+ hour ago (1036+ words) by Max Grünwald | Sep 20, 2026 | Aviación militar | 0 comments Every radar that is looking for you has to shout to do it. That is the whole weakness of the thing. A fire-control radar cannot find a target without flooding the sky with…...
The Doolittle Raid: 16 B-25s That Were Never Coming Back
5+ day, 10+ hour ago (693+ words) by Tamika Johnson | Sep 16, 2026 | Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire | 0 comments At 07:38 on the morning of 18 April 1942, a 70-ton Japanese patrol boat called the Nittō Maru spotted an American task force about 650 nautical miles east of Japan and got a radio…...
Me 264 Amerikabomber: The Aircraft Built to Bomb New York
6+ day, 5+ hour ago (852+ words) by Max Grünwald | Sep 15, 2026 | Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar | 0 comments On 23 December 1942 a very large four-engined aeroplane with a glazed nose and twin fins lifted off from Augsburg. It had bunk beds in the fuselage and a galley with hot…...
He 111Z Zwilling: Five Engines, Two Fuselages, One Pilot
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Operation Paul Bunyan: Cutting a Tree With B-52s Overhead
6+ day, 5+ hour ago (731+ words) by Joseph Duncan | Sep 15, 2026 | History & Legends, Military Aviation | 0 comments On the morning of 21 August 1976, B-52s flew in from Guam with Phantom escorts. F-111s crossed the Pacific from Idaho. Fighters launched from Kadena, Clark, Osan and Taegu. South Korean F-5s and Sabres joined the…...
The Soviet Bomber That Carried the Buran Shuttle on Its Back | Afterburner - MiGFlug's Magazine
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Vickers Valiant: Britain's First V-Bomber
2+ week, 3+ day ago (474+ words) by Fortuna Leroy | 7 luglio 2026 | Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare | 0 comments The Valiant is the least glamorous of Britain’s three V-bombers. It is also the one that did the most, first. It worked exactly as intended. The Valiant flew in 1951 and…...
De Havilland Venom: Switzerland Flew It Until 1983
1+ week, 1+ day ago (903+ words) by Max Grünwald | Sep 13, 2026 | History & Legends, Military Aviation | 0 comments In 1971 a Swiss fighter jet landed on a motorway. Not in an emergency — on purpose, as part of a doctrine that assumed Swiss airfields would be cratered within hours of a…...
How did hackers trick Berlin's city government?
1+ week, 1+ day ago (112+ words) DW.com Berlin is dealing with the biggest cyberattack in its history after hackers stole nearly 6 terabytes of government data in a ClickFix scam and demanded a €2 million ransom. How did it happen? How could a single employee's mistake expose…...
Russia-Germany tensions flare
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