Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
The Germans had a word for it. They always do. When Luftwaffe pilots talked about the Panavia Tornado, they called it the eierlegende Wollmilchsau — the “egg-laying wool-milk pig.” A mythical creature that does everything: lays eggs, produces wool, gives...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Before dawn on 14 June, two Royal Air Force Chinook helicopters thundered low over the English Channel toward a 244-metre oil tanker flying the flag of Cameroon. Hanging beneath them, silhouetted against the first grey light, were Royal Marines from Kilo Company, 42...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Depuis plus de soixante ans, tous les avions de chasse de l'armée de l'air algérienne proviennent d'un seul pays : la Russie. MiG-21, MiG-25, Su-30MKA, MiG-29… la flotte de combat entière ressemble à un catalogue des bureaux d'études soviétiques et russes. Cette époque touche à sa fin. Selon….
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
À plus de 300 kilomètres de la frontière de l'OTAN la plus proche, la Serbie construit un réseau de défense aérienne conçu par Pékin et non approuvé par aucune alliance occidentale. Le 28 juin, le président Aleksandar Vučić a confirmé ce que les analystes de la défense soupçonnaient depuis des mois : Belgrade est en train de….
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
It begins, as these things often do, not with a missile but with a laptop. Somewhere in the cavernous cargo hold of a French A400M Atlas — a hold built to swallow a helicopter or a 37-tonne armoured vehicle — an operator will soon sit at a console, watching sensor...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Walk the static line at ILA Berlin and you expect the usual choreography around a helicopter: a pilot strapping in, a crew chief signalling, the slow whine of an Arriel engine spooling up. This June, Airbus parked something stranger under the Brandenburg sun. The...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
For roughly sixteen hours on 23 June 2026, two of the largest combat aircraft ever built carved a long arc through the cold airspace of the European Arctic. Two Russian Tu-160 strategic bombers — the variable-sweep giants NATO calls “Blackjack”...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
At the Farnborough air show in 1953, the crowd hears it before they see it. Ten engines, building from a hum to a roar, and then the largest all-metal flying boat ever built slides overhead — a silver whale of an aircraft, a 219-foot wing, an ocean liner that...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
British defence programmes are not, as a rule, famous for speed. The Ajax armoured vehicle spent eight years mired in delay; the RAF’s Wedgetail radar aircraft arrived three years late. So when three new long-range strike weapons go from a sheet of paper to a...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
For sixty years, the answer to the question “what does Vietnam fly?” has been simple: whatever Moscow sold it. MiGs, then Sukhois — a proud, entirely Russian air force. In 2026, for the first time, that answer is genuinely in doubt, and the...
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