Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes
Share this story By almost every technical measure, the Lockheed L-1011 TriStar was the finest airliner of its generation. It could fly an approach and land itself in thick fog when rivals still needed a pilot’s hands. Its ride was smoother, its systems...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Partagez cette histoire. Durant l'été 1940, les pilotes de chasse de la RAF, pourtant en infériorité numérique, se retrouvaient invariablement au bon endroit pour affronter la Luftwaffe. Pour les Allemands, cela ressemblait à une chance incroyable. Il n'en était rien. Le long des côtes britanniques se dressait une ligne de….
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Share this story Fresh, far clearer imagery of China’s new turboprop tactical airlifter surfaced around 21 August 2026, reported first by The War Zone and picked up across the defence press. The photographs, taken at an unidentified test airfield, give the best...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Share this story Open-source analysts say Ukrainian forces struck the Russian airbase at Akhtubinsk in the Astrakhan region in the early hours of 20 August 2026, damaging a Su-34 fighter-bomber. The claim rests on satellite imagery circulated by OSINT channels rather...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Share this story Decades before the V-22 Osprey, America built an aircraft that could lift off vertically like a helicopter, then cruise at over 400 mph like an airliner — by rotating its entire wing. It worked. It was decades ahead of its time. And almost...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Share this story In the mid-1970s, two American planemakers built four extraordinary transport prototypes that could land almost anywhere and stop almost immediately. Both designs worked brilliantly. Both lost. And then one of them quietly went on to father one of the...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Share this story Line the Tupolev Tu-128 up next to the bombers it was built to shoot down, and you might struggle to tell the hunter from the prey. At nearly 30 metres long and around 43 tonnes, this Soviet interceptor was bigger and heavier than many of the aircraft...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Share this story In 1997, the Russian government formally cancelled the fighter that was supposed to answer the American F-22. Three years later, in front of an invited crowd at Zhukovsky, that cancelled fighter took off anyway. The Mikoyan 1.44 is one of...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Share this story India’s fighter problem used to be a problem you could count. Dozens of finished Tejas Mk1A airframes have sat on Hindustan Aeronautics Limited’s (HAL) lines in Nashik and Bengaluru, waiting on a single missing part, the General Electric...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Share this story The most consequential upgrade the E-2D Advanced Hawkeye has ever received will not change how the aircraft looks. No new wing, no new rotodome, no obvious external clue. What changes sits behind the fuselage skin: the computers, the software, the...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Share this story Peru has quietly filled in one of the most important blanks on its future fighter. On 19 August 2026, L3Harris confirmed it had been selected to supply the AN/ALQ-254(V)1 Viper Shield electronic-warfare suite for the F-16 Block 70s destined for the...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Share this story The comparison arrives within about ninety seconds of any conversation about defence budgets. Europe is rearming, China is building warships at a pace nobody can match, and somebody says it: this is how it felt before 1914. Sometimes they reach for...
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