Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Share this story At 12:50 PM on March 29, four F-35A Lightning II stealth fighters touched down at Misawa Air Base in Aomori Prefecture, northeastern Japan. They taxied to the ramp, engines winding down, canopies opening in the cold northern air. It looked routine. It...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Share this story The first 100 hours of Operation Epic Fury cost approximately $3.7 billion — roughly $891 million per day. A staggering share of that went to a single, maddening problem: shooting down cheap Iranian drones with some of the most expensive aircraft on...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Share this story On March 25, a Gripen E fighter jet — designation F-39E, serial FAB 4109 — rolled out of Embraer’s facility in Gavião Peixoto, São Paulo state. It looks identical to every other Gripen E. But this one was built in Brazil, not Sweden. And that changes...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Share this story On March 25, a U.S. Navy F/A-18E/F Super Hornet screamed low over the Iranian port city of Chabahar, its M61A2 Vulcan cannon spitting 20mm rounds at targets near the Imam Ali IRGC Naval Base. Seconds later, a shoulder-fired missile streaked upward and...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Share this story Eleven months deployed out of twelve. Thousands of combat hours. The first-ever air-to-air kills for the F-35A. The 34th Fighter Squadron just earned the Raytheon Trophy — and no unit in the Air Force had a more gruelling year to show for it. The...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Share this story For three consecutive days last week, two of America’s most secretive flying laboratories circled over the Gulf of Mexico in tight formation — and the aviation intelligence community is buzzing about what they were testing. Northrop...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Share this story Iran’s missiles have turned Al Udeid Air Base into the most dangerous American address in the Middle East. Now CENTCOM wants to bury its nerve centre underground — but a retired three-star general says the plan is already too late. Air Forces...
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