Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Le 29 juillet 2026, l'armée de l'air ukrainienne a annoncé la perte d'un F-16 lors d'une mission de combat visant à intercepter des cibles aériennes russes. Le pilote s'est éjecté et a survécu. Selon l'armée de l'air, les contrôleurs aériens ont perdu le contact avec l'appareil alors qu'il était engagé au-dessus d'un secteur...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Vers 14h30 le 30 juillet 2026, des capteurs le long de la frontière entre la Corée du Sud et le Nord ont détecté un objet non identifié : un drone, près d’un avant-poste de la ligne de front, n’émettant aucun signal amical. Dans la zone la plus militarisée….
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Le 29 juillet 2026, dans l'usine de Korea Aerospace Industries à Sacheon, la Corée du Sud a accompli un exploit que seules quelques nations ont réalisé : elle a déclaré son propre chasseur supersonique achevé. Le KF-21 Boramae – ’ jeune faucon “ – est officiellement terminé….
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Over the pine forests of the Gironde, a shape far too large to be a water bomber banks low, opens its rear cargo ramp, and lets a red cascade of retardant fall across the treetops. This is no yellow Canadair. It is an Airbus A400M Atlas, the biggest tactical airlifter...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Some warplanes make their name in dogfights, twisting through the sky with guns blazing. The McDonnell F-101 Voodoo made most of its name doing the opposite: flying low, flying flat out, and flying completely unarmed straight over the people trying to kill it,...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Some aircraft impress by their cleverness. The Tupolev Tu-160 impresses first by its sheer dimensions. At 54.1 metres (177 ft 6 in) it is longer than a Boeing B-52, and when its wings are spread it measures 55.7 metres (182 ft 9 in) from tip to tip. Painted in...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Every so often aviation history throws up an aircraft whose greatest achievement was simply existing. The Bell P-59 Airacomet is the patron saint of that club. It was America’s first jet aircraft, a genuine milestone, and yet it was so underwhelming in the air...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Most military aircraft can be summed up in a single job. Fighters fight. Bombers bomb. Attack helicopters attack. And then there is the Mil Mi-24, a machine that looked at the neat little boxes military planners like to draw and cheerfully refused to sit in any of...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Ask anyone who was there and they will tell you the same thing: you heard it before you saw it. A low, chopping pulse rolling in over the treeline, whop-whop-whop, growing until it filled the whole sky. For a generation of soldiers, that sound meant almost everything...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Few aircraft announce themselves before they are seen. The Tupolev Tu-95, known to NATO as the “Bear,” is one of them. It is a large, four-engine turboprop strategic bomber, and yet it cruises at speeds normally reserved for jets. That contradiction, a...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Some aeroplanes are admired. A rare few are loved. The Hawker Hunter belongs firmly to the second category, and it has done so since the day it first slipped into the air in 1951. Ask a British pilot of a certain vintage to name the most beautiful jet ever built and...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Say “four-engine British heavy bomber” to almost anyone and you will get the same answer: the Lancaster. The Avro Lancaster is the one that flew the Dambusters raid, the one still cruising over air shows on a summer afternoon, the one bolted into the...
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