Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
A ground-based IRIS-T battery can reach about eight miles in its short-range form, or roughly 25 miles in the medium-range version. Useful numbers, until the thing you need to shoot down is 200 miles away and heading for a city. So Diehl Defence and a German start-up...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
In the autumn of 1982, eight Soviet bombers came down on the USS Enterprise and USS Midway in the North Pacific and locked their radars on both carriers from about 190 kilometres out. The US Navy’s response was deliberately restrained, because watching how they...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Ask a large language model for the combat radius of a foreign fighter and it will give you a number. Confident, specific, formatted like a fact. It may also be entirely invented. That is an inconvenience if you are writing a school essay. It is something else if you...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
On 14 August 2026 the Russian state news agency TASS reported that the two-seat Su-57D will be used to test combat artificial intelligence under development at the Sukhoi Design Bureau. The source was Mikhail Strelets, the bureau’s director, speaking on the...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Correction — 24 August 2026This report followed Ukraine’s Unmanned Systems Forces in identifying one of the aircraft struck at Vityazevo as a Su-33. Analysts examining the released footage have since assessed, from the raised fairing behind the cockpit,...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Every elegant aircraft has an ungainly predecessor. Before the Hawker Siddeley Harrier hovered over Falklands task forces and Marine Corps flight decks, there was the Hawker P.1127: a stubby, bug-eyed prototype that looked less like a fighter than an experiment that...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Before the Lancaster, before the B-17, before the very idea of a four-engined heavy bomber was settled doctrine, one already existed — and it was bombing London. The Zeppelin-Staaken R.VI, built from 1916, was a four-engined biplane with a wingspan of 42.2...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
On the morning of 27 August 1939, over the Heinkel works at Rostock-Marienehe, a small, stub-nosed monoplane lifted off with a sound no one had heard from an aeroplane before: a rising, tearing howl in place of the familiar hammer of pistons. It was the Heinkel He...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
In the late 1930s the Focke-Wulf Fw 200 Condor was, briefly, the most modern airliner in the sky: a clean, four-engined monoplane that could cross an ocean without stopping. Within three years the same graceful airframe was ranging far out over the Atlantic with bombs...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Russian sources say the Su-35S has taken on a new and demanding job over Ukraine: hunting the radars that guide enemy air defences. Footage circulated on 22 August 2026 purports to show an Su-35 launching a Kh-31PM anti-radiation missile at a Ukrainian air-defence...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Approchez-vous d'un Antonov An-22 au moment où ses moteurs démarrent et vous ne vous contenterez pas de l'entendre, vous le ressentirez. Quatre des turbopropulseurs les plus puissants jamais construits font tourner huit hélices gigantesques, chaque pale décrivant un cercle plus haut qu'une maison, et le son est un grondement profond et déchirant….
Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes
Pas de moteur. Pas de kérosène. Pas de fusée. Juste un planeur blanc et élancé, ses longues ailes se nourrissant de courants ascendants invisibles, s'élevant plus haut qu'un avion espion U-2 dans le noir glacial de la stratosphère. En 2018, le planeur Perlan 2, sans moteur, a atteint 23 200 mètres d'altitude….
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