Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
India can build fighter airframes. What it has never managed to build is a fighter engine. That single gap has hobbled Indian air power for decades — and on 14 August 2026, the country’s richest man announced a plan to close it. Reliance Industries, the...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
On a moonless night in 1942, an RAF bomber crossing the Dutch coast flew into a wall it could not see. There was no barrier in the sky — only an invisible grid of radar beams, searchlights and waiting fighters, each box of it engineered to catch one aircraft at a...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
It is not often that an aircraft gets fifty percent more power without getting any bigger. That is exactly what the U.S. Army is trying to bolt into thousands of its helicopters — and on 12 August 2026 the effort passed one of its hardest gates. GE Aerospace’s...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
The F-104 Starfighter has one of the worst reputations in military aviation. Germany bought 916 of them, lost 292, and buried 116 pilots. The Luftwaffe called it the Witwenmacher — the Widowmaker.On one night in January 1982, that aircraft did something no other...
Monde de l'aviation, Aviation militaire
In 2025 the world spent $2,887 billion on its armed forces. That is the highest figure SIPRI has ever recorded, the eleventh consecutive annual increase, and it works out at $352 for every person alive.Below is what that money bought, counted as carefully as open...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Count the engines on a Dornier Do 31 and you get to ten. Two of them are Pegasus turbofans, the same vectored-thrust engines that made the Harrier work. The other eight do nothing whatsoever in cruise. They sit in pods on the wingtips, four a side, pointing at the...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
The radar worked. That was the strange part. It could see aircraft, track them, and hand the picture to the operators behind it. It simply could not do so reliably, or for long, or against the one category of target the entire programme existed to detect.On 18...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
America already has hypersonic missiles on the way. DARPA has just told industry that “on the way” is not good enough. On 7 August 2026, the Pentagon’s far-out research agency released a notice for a possible new program — the Next-Generation...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Russian state television has aired footage of a new strike drone called the BM-35, and the numbers attached to it are eye-catching: a jet engine, a top speed of more than 350 km/h, and a claim that Ukrainian interceptors simply cannot catch it. As always with weapons...
Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Picture the Deutschlandhalle in Berlin in February 1938. The arena is packed. Down on the floor sits a contraption that looks like a light trainer that has lost its wings and grown two enormous three-blade fans on outrigger struts. A slight young woman climbs into the...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
By 1943 the arithmetic over Germany had turned against the Luftwaffe. American daylight bomber streams — the tight, mutually-defending boxes of B-17s and B-24s — were arriving in numbers that piston fighters could not blunt fast enough. Blohm & Voss...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Few aircraft have been asked to carry as much mythology on so little lift as the Sack AS-6. Search the phrase ‘Nazi flying saucer’ and this stubby, disc-winged machine appears again and again, presented as evidence that the Third Reich was on the verge of...
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