Luftwaffe

Germany has followed through on threats to withdraw its military forces from Incirlik Air Base in Turkey after months of diplomatic tensions with the Turkish government. The forces in question composed Germany’s contribution to the coalition against ISIS, and will remain out of the fight for at least another two months as they are moved […]

Earlier this month, the world reflected on the 72nd anniversary of the end of World War II in Europe — when Hitler’s Nazi army finally surrendered on what is now known as “Victor in Europe Day.” Hitler’s engineers secretly developed some of the most ambitious projects and rapidly produced sophisticated technology decades before its time. In […]

The harshness that became the four battles of Cassino occurring in Italy from January through May 1944 represented the difficulty facing the Allies trying to take what had been described as the “soft underbelly of Europe.” They had witnessed the successes at the fall of the island of Sicily and Salerno beachhead on the mainland, […]

Though history remembers him as one of the bad guys, there is little doubt that a German named Otto Skorzeny played an influential role in demonstrating the power small specialized units could play on the battlefield. Once called ‘The Most Dangerous Man In Europe,’ his participation in planning and executing risky, even outlandish, operations earned […]

Yesterday, we mentioned the opening salvos of the Battle of Britain, the only campaign in the history of warfare to be fought strictly with airpower. The anniversary was commemorated in London in a variety of ways, to include a changing of the guard at Buckingham Palace where all of the participants were wearing RAF uniforms, […]

Seventy-five years ago today marked the beginning of the end for our friends in the United Kingdom. As precursor to a planned airborne and amphibious invasion of the British Isles–known as Operation Sea Lion, Adolf Hitler’s Luftwaffe began a massive air campaign against England. The British flatly refused to go quietly, so thus began “the […]

Welcome back, FighterSweep fans! For this week’s edition of Milestone Monday, we’re going to take a look at yet another controversial aircraft – imagine that! – but this time one operated by several of our NATO partners and closest allies. The Eurofighter Typhoon is a modern, delta-winged, multirole strike fighter that made its first flight on […]

Our Luftwaffe friends certainly love to put the Tonka through its paces down low, where she’s in her prime. Take a look as they ruffle some feathers near CFB Goose Bay, Canada.