Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Share this story Just after dawn on Monday, air-raid sirens and the buzz of engines reached a city most of the war had never touched. Nizhnekamsk sits roughly 1,200 kilometres (750 miles) from the nearest Ukrainian-held ground, deep in the Russian republic of...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Share this story A Marine fighter squadron that flew its last Hornet into retirement in 2023 is coming back — and this time it is coming back for the carrier deck.On 31 July 2026, Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 115, the “Silver Eagles,” flew the...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Share this story It is the kind of thing a weekend pilot never expects to see filling the windscreen: the grey nose of an F-16 Fighting Falcon sliding into formation a few wingspans away, wings heavy with missiles. On Sunday, at least one general-aviation pilot over...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Share this story For two days this weekend, the flattest stretch of Nebraska turns into the loudest. Offutt Air Force Base throws open its gates on 8 and 9 August for the 2026 Defenders of Freedom Air & Space Show, and the headline act is the one everyone came to...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Share this story Most Vietnam-era warplanes are long gone — melted into scrap or bolted to a museum pole. The OV-10 Bronco keeps refusing to leave. Built to fight guerrillas in the 1960s, the funny little twin-boom turboprop has come roaring back again and...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Share this story By a decades-old agreement between the U.S. services, the Army isn’t really supposed to fly its own combat aeroplanes — that job belongs to the Air Force. The Grumman OV-1 Mohawk is the great exception: a stubby, triple-tailed, bug-eyed...
Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes
Share this story In the opening minutes of Octopussy (1983), Roger Moore’s James Bond escapes an exploding hangar in a jet barely bigger than he is, outruns a heat-seeking missile, then coasts up to a petrol station and deadpans: “Fill her up,...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Share this story A hailstorm, two runaway business jets, and a nose panel that nobody would build. That is the short version of how a U.S. Air Force C-17 ended up grounded for the better part of a year and a half. The long version ends with a robot, a research lab in...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Share this story Iran has turned a hole in the ground into a trophy case. This week the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps threw open an underground “exhibition” of American and Israeli aircraft it says its air defences knocked out of the sky. The...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Share this story For nearly half a century, the growl of the A-10 Warthog was the soundtrack of Davis-Monthan Air Force Base. On 29 July, that sound faded for good — and now the Air Force is moving fast to fill the silence with something very different. With the...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Share this story The U.S. Navy’s two great ocean-watchers already work as a pair. Now they are learning to talk directly to each other — and one of them is about to start taking orders straight from the other’s cockpit. On 5 August, Boeing and...
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