Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Share this story By the summer of 1944 the Fifteenth Air Force had lost 350 bombers over the Ploiesti oil fields, and a great many of the men who fell out of them came down in occupied Serbia. They were not captured. They were hidden — in barns, in hayricks, in...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Share this story Iraq already flies the Bell 407. On 31 August 2026 the U.S. State Department cleared it to buy a great many more of them, along with a bigger stablemate and enough guns, rockets and sensors to turn utility helicopters into armed scouts. The approval,...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Share this story Egypt was the first country outside France to buy the Rafale. Eleven years later, it may be about to become the type’s biggest foreign customer by a wide margin. On 2 September 2026 the French daily La Tribune reported that Cairo has submitted a...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Share this story The treeline is close enough to count individual trees. The horizon sits high in the windscreen, the ground blurring past in green streaks, and somewhere ahead a small jet-powered cruise missile is running for a Ukrainian city at roughly the speed of...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Share this story The runway at RAF Lyneham on the morning of 22 July 1966 held one of the least likely aeroplanes in Britain: a Lightning interceptor with no canopy, a disarmed ejection seat, its undercarriage pinned down, and a man in the cockpit who was wearing no...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Share this story Kuwaitis woke before dawn on Wednesday to the sound their government had already warned them to expect: air defence interceptors going up. For the second time in three days, Iran had fired missiles and drones at American bases on Kuwaiti soil. The...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Partagez cette histoire. L'Ukraine a passé trois ans à apprendre comment abattre des Shaheds à moindre coût. Mitrailleuses sur pick-up. Guerre électronique. Puis, l'astuce la plus ingénieuse : de petits drones intercepteurs à hélices, coûtant quelques milliers de dollars, qui ont percuté une cible valant bien plus….
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Share this story One of the most powerful warships on Earth just limped into a Thai port looking like a scrapyard find. After 286 days at sea, the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln has pulled into Laem Chabang near Pattaya streaked with rust —...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Share this story The Boeing B-52 Stratofortress has been in service for seventy years and is on course to fly for a hundred. It has outlasted the Soviet Union, the propeller, and most of the engineers who designed it. And the design that made all of that possible...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Share this story South Korea has barely finished building its first home-grown fighter, and it is already reaching for the next one — and this time it wants to skip a generation. Seoul has formally launched the concept study for a sixth-generation stealth...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Share this story The Short Stirling was the first of the RAF’s great four-engine heavy bombers — into service before the Halifax, before the Lancaster, the aircraft that opened Britain’s strategic bombing war. It was huge, handsome and, in the end,...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Partagez cet article. Lorsque les MiG-15 de fabrication soviétique ont survolé la Corée à la fin des années 1950, avec leurs ailes en flèche et leur forte pente ascensionnelle, l'US Navy s'est trouvée face à un problème. Son meilleur avion embarqué, le Grumman F9F Panther, était une machine performante et robuste, mais son aile droite….
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