Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Share this story It could out-climb an F-16, scramble from cold to airborne in under half a minute, and fire a radar missile years before its rival could. It was cheap to run, brilliant to fly, and paid for entirely out of one company’s own pocket. And it sold exactly...
Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Share this story Before there was radar, before there were reliable instruments, before anyone had crossed the United States without landing, there was a quiet Army lieutenant named John Macready — a man who spent the early 1920s collecting aviation...
Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Share this story At a thousand feet over Wiltshire, pulling out of a vertical dive at five times the force of gravity, Neil Williams heard a bang and felt the airframe lurch. His left wing had begun to fold up. In the next few seconds, the British aerobatic champion...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Partagez cette histoire. Il y a trois ans, Neros n'était qu'un atelier animé par deux anciens adolescents passionnés de courses de drones. Cette semaine, l'armée américaine a attribué à cette start-up un contrat pouvant atteindre 14 000,5 milliards de dollars pour la construction de drones d'attaque à vision subjective — des armes bon marché et consommables qui ont révolutionné le secteur….
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Partagez cet article. Pendant des années, l'une des rumeurs les plus futuristes concernant le nouveau bombardier furtif américain était qu'il pourrait se passer d'un équipage important ; que le B-21 Raider pourrait voler avec un seul pilote, voire sans aucun pilote à terme. Ce mois-ci, l'armée de l'air a démenti cette hypothèse….
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Partagez cet article : Le projet de défense le plus coûteux de l’histoire américaine a désormais un nom. Le 17 juillet 2026, le Sénat a confirmé la nomination du général Michael A. Guetlein, commandant de la Force spatiale, à la tête du Dôme d’or, le projet du président Trump visant à déployer un bouclier antimissile au-dessus de la Terre.
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Share this story Britain owns a fleet of the most capable aerial tankers on the market — and cannot use them to refuel some of its own most important aircraft. It is one of the quiet embarrassments of the Royal Air Force, and after fifteen years the RAF has finally...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Share this story For years the Indian Air Force could see the enemy long before it could hit him. Chinese fighters and airborne radar planes carry missiles that reach out past 200 kilometres; India’s Su-30MKI fleet, its heaviest hitter, had nothing that could match...
Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes
Share this story On the afternoon of 24 November 1971, a quiet man in a business suit walked up to the Northwest Orient counter in Portland, Oregon, and paid cash for a one-way ticket to Seattle. He gave his name as Dan Cooper. A few hours later he would step out of...
Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes
Share this story It was a calm, clear night over the Indian Ocean on 24 June 1982 when the passengers of British Airways Flight 9 noticed something strange: a glow along the wings, and puffs of smoke curling into the cabin that smelled of sulphur. Up front, the crew...
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