Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Bien avant qu'un drone russe Shahed n'atteigne une ville ukrainienne, il doit être stocké, ravitaillé en carburant, lancé et guidé. Dans la nuit du 6 au 7 août, l'Ukraine a attaqué l'ensemble de cette chaîne, ciblant un site de lancement de drones, un radar d'alerte précoce et les stations relais qui….
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Depuis un demi-siècle, les Red Arrows illuminent le ciel britannique de rouge, de blanc et de bleu, grâce aux neuf BAE Hawk volant aile contre aile. Cet été, leur ballet aérien était incomplet : la vétusté des Hawk T1 a contraint la patrouille à utiliser sept appareils pour la majeure partie de ses démonstrations de 2026….
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
A hailstorm, two runaway business jets, and a nose panel that nobody would build. That is the short version of how a U.S. Air Force C-17 ended up grounded for the better part of a year and a half. The long version ends with a robot, a research lab in Ohio, and the...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Iran has turned a hole in the ground into a trophy case. This week the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps threw open an underground “exhibition” of American and Israeli aircraft it says its air defences knocked out of the sky. The centrepiece is a mangled...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
In January 1942, a month after Pearl Harbor, a Pennsylvania dentist named Lytle S. Adams sat down and wrote a letter to the White House. His plan to win the war was simple: strap tiny incendiary bombs to a million bats and drop them on Tokyo.It should have gone...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
In the middle of the Second World War, one of the most famous psychologists in America proposed a guidance system for bombs that used no radar, no gyroscopes, and no vacuum tubes. It used pigeons. Live ones. Riding inside the nose of the bomb.The astonishing part is...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
In 1913, while the rest of the world was still coaxing flimsy single-engine biplanes into the air for a few shaky minutes, a 24-year-old Russian rolled out an aircraft with four engines, a heated passenger lounge, electric lighting, and a washroom. It was called the...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Look closely at the tail of the Spitfire and something is wrong — gloriously, deliberately wrong. Beside the familiar red-white-blue fin flash of the Royal Air Force sits a five-pointed communist red star. This is a British fighter, in British service, flying...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
For months the story ran the wrong way. Poland was going to scrap its last MiG-29 fighters rather than hand them to Ukraine, a drones-for-jets deal apparently dead in the water. On 7 August 2026 the narrative flipped.Ukraine’s Ambassador to Poland, Vasyl Bodnar,...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
France has made its move. On 6 August 2026, Dassault Aviation handed New Delhi a formal techno-commercial proposal for 114 Rafale fighters — the long-awaited answer to India’s Multi-Role Fighter Aircraft (MRFA) tender, and one of the largest single fighter...
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