Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
The U.S. Navy just handed Shield AI roughly $50 million to build a jet that doesn’t need a runway, and the U.S. Air Force declined to chip in a single dollar. One service sees the future. The other sees a very expensive question mark and a wallet that’s...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
A Marine walks out of the woods with a bloodied face and a phone in his hand, 911 already dialled. A county deputy, not quite sure what he is looking at, asks the obvious question: what kind of jet is that? The pilot glances back toward the column of black smoke on...
Monde de l'aviation, Nouvelles
Last year the Middle East’s airlines made $7.2 billion. This year they are on track to lose $4.3 billion. That is an eleven-and-a-half-billion-dollar swing in twelve months, and it makes the Gulf the only major airline region on earth expected to finish 2026 in...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
For 55 years, the same stubby twin-engine helicopter has clattered over Washington, ferrying VIPs and standing ready to whisk officials out of the capital in a crisis. The UH-1N Huey’s watch is finally ending. On 12 August 2026, the Air Force confirmed Joint...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
A single Eagle rolled out of Boeing’s St. Louis plant this month wearing two small but loaded details: a “ZZ” tail flash and the badge of the 18th Wing. Translation — the first F-15EX Eagle II built for Kadena Air Base has finally broken cover....
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
For years the drone story in the Middle East was about what the other side could do — Iranian Shaheds, Houthi one-way attackers, the slow bleed of American surveillance drones falling from the sky. This week, U.S. Central Command answered with a drone force of...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
The first warning should have been enough. On 2 December 2025, security forces found a minivan with Massachusetts plates loitering near the perimeter of Whiteman Air Force Base, home of America’s stealth bombers. The driver said he had simply come to look at the...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Hours before American and South Korean troops were due to kick off one of the year’s biggest military exercises, President Donald Trump told the Pentagon to shrink it — and named two reasons that had nothing to do with the Korean Peninsula: Kim Jong Un,...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Last week we told you that America had lost roughly a quarter of its MQ-9 Reaper fleet in the war with Iran. That eye-watering number — around 45 drones, more than $1.3 billion — turned out to be a single line in a much longer invoice. Nearly six months...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
A bystander in Wichita, Kansas points a phone at the sky. A large, grey, tailless shape slides overhead near McConnell Air Force Base. The footage is shaky, the shape is unmistakable-but-not-quite — and within hours the internet has decided it just filmed...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Aircraft carriers are the ultimate way for a navy to say “we are here.” So when two of them quietly swap ends of the same sea in the same week, it is worth paying attention. That is what happened in mid-August. As the American carrier USS George Washington...
Monde de l'aviation, Nouvelles
The world’s most powerful army just decided its next combat pilots will learn to fly on a helicopter you could, in principle, buy off a dealer’s lot. On August 13, the U.S. Army picked M1 Support Services and its partner Robinson Helicopters to run Flight...
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