Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Ottawa has made a choice that says as much about politics as it does about firepower. Canada will arm its future F-35A fleet with the Joint Strike Missile, the Norwegian-built cruise weapon that tucks inside the Lightning II’s belly without spoiling its stealth. Prime...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Au milieu des années 1950, un avion français élancé, doté de réacteurs en bout d'aile et d'un moteur-fusée sous le fuselage, s'est frayé un chemin jusqu'aux confins de l'espace, atteignant près de deux fois la vitesse du son et établissant des records de vitesse ascensionnelle pour un avion à réaction. Et puis….
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Imagine a fighter aircraft that cannot take off. It has no way to move under its own power on the runway, no way to build up speed, no way to leave the ground at all. To fly it, you must bolt it to the roof of an airliner, haul it up to altitude, and drop it — and...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Il y a un demi-siècle, le SEPECAT Jaguar sillonnait les plaines du nord de l'Allemagne à toute allure, à la cime des arbres, une bombe nucléaire sous son fuselage et le Pacte de Varsovie dans sa ligne de mire. La France l'a retiré du service en 2005. La Grande-Bretagne s'en est séparée en 2007. Oman a remisé ses derniers exemplaires en service….
Monde de l'aviation, Nouvelles
Europe’s most recognisable low-cost airline has become the object of a transatlantic tug-of-war. On 10 July 2026, the board of easyJet told the market it was no longer minded to recommend a takeover proposal from the American investment firm Castlelake — because...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Denmark has decided how it will watch the top of the world. On Jul. 7, 2026, the Danish Ministry of Defence confirmed a provisional decision to buy two Boeing P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft — long-range sub-hunters built to prowl the North Atlantic and the...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
On Jul. 6, 2026, a new shape crossed into Czech airspace: a twin-engined, high-tailed jet transport in a distinctive three-tone grey, escorted the last stretch home by a pair of Saab JAS 39 Gripens. The newcomer was the Czech Air Force’s first Embraer C-390...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
The holidaymakers on Zakynthos came for the beaches. On the afternoon of Jul. 9, 2026, they got something else entirely: a single-seat fighter jet sliding down the runway on its belly, trailing sparks, then wrapped in flame as fire crews rushed to smother it. The...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
La Suède entra dans la Guerre froide avec un problème qu'aucune somme d'argent ne pouvait résoudre. Nation neutre de taille modeste, voisine de l'Union soviétique, elle savait qu'en cas de conflit, ses quelques grandes bases aériennes seraient ravagées par les missiles et les bombes dès les premières heures.
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
For three-quarters of a century, European security rested on a single quiet assumption: if the sky over the continent ever caught fire, American airpower would arrive to put it out. At this month’s NATO summit, the alliance’s top commander made clear that the...
Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Fréjus, on the Côte d’Azur, 23 September 1913, 5:47 in the morning. The sea is still grey, the air smells of salt and the burnt castor oil that every rotary engine of the era coughs over its pilot. A small, dark-eyed man settles into a Morane-Saulnier G — a...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
When we wrote last week that NATO’s next radar jet would be Swedish, the news still wore the modest clothing of a Reuters exclusive. On Tuesday in Ankara, it acquired numbers, signatures and a price tag. Secretary General Mark Rutte confirmed that the Alliance...
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