Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Among all the fifth-generation sales theatre at El Alamein this week, the most consequential thing on the ramp is a helicopter that first flew in 1961. Boeing has handed the Egyptian Air Force the first five of twelve CH-47F Chinooks, with the milestone marked during...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Two Russian Su-35S fighters collided in the air over Russia’s Kursk region on Sunday. One pilot was killed. The other ejected and was injured. That is the entire confirmed account, and even it is not confirmed in any official sense. The report comes from...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Just after midnight on Pakistan Air Force Day, the PAF posted a patriotic music video called Fizaon K Pasbaan — Guardians of the Skies. Around twenty-eight seconds in, a six-wheeled air-defence vehicle with a large rectangular radar array rolls past. Pakistan...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
On Sunday morning, Iranian state television announced that the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps had struck a remotely operated US military vessel in the Strait of Hormuz, after it tried to enter what Iran calls a restricted area. By Sunday afternoon, US Central...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
The caption was eleven words long. “Golden hour. Live fire. Mothership operations with 75th Ranger Regiment, U.S. Army.” That is the entirety of what has been made public about the US Army’s most secretive infantry unit testing a drone that carries...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
A plumber driving home past Long Beach Airport on Thursday evening saw light spilling out of a hangar that had been shut for years. He turned around. What he found parked on the ramp was eighty feet of matte black airframe with no cockpit, no canopy, and no obvious...
Monde de l'aviation, Nouvelles
Developing story. This account is based on the FAA, Miami-Dade Fire Rescue, Amazon and initial reporting on the afternoon of 6 September 2026. Casualty information has not been confirmed by the authorities and early details in accidents like this frequently change. A...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
On Saturday morning a squadron of F-35Bs taxied onto the flight line at Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, on the Seto Inland Sea, and took over a job the US Marine Corps has been rotating through Japan since 1980. The unit is Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 533, the...
Monde de l'aviation, Nouvelles
On 5 January 2024 a door plug departed an Alaska Airlines Boeing 737-9 MAX at around 16,000 feet, leaving a hole in the side of a full airliner. Nobody was killed, which was luck rather than design. The Federal Aviation Administration eventually proposed a fine....
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Two Iranian ballistic missiles came off the rail on Saturday morning and went for a United States aircraft carrier and a guided-missile destroyer. Both missed. Nobody aboard either ship was hurt. The answer arrived within hours, and it was not aimed at a radar site or...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Two Californian companies announced this week that they are going to build an autonomous aircraft together. They did not say what it is, who it is for, what it costs, or when it flies. Ordinarily that would be a press release to ignore. This one is worth a second...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
The video is short and, if you have any imagination at all, deeply unpleasant. A Mi-8 descends towards a public highway on Sakhalin Island, main rotor blades sweeping low over a truck that is still driving along the road. Then the helicopter goes off the road and into...
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