Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Le message provenait du Commandement des opérations aériennes de Jakarta, et pour les quatre-vingt-quinze hommes et femmes de l'escadron Udara 15, cela signifiait une première : charger cinq avions, traverser la mer d'Arafura et partir voler avec le reste du monde. Pour la première fois, l'Indonésie….
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
The Philippines is doubling down on the little jet that guards its skies — and this time it is buying the version that finally bites back at range.The Philippine Air Force has confirmed that its next 12 FA-50 fighters remain on schedule, with the first aircraft...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Ten nights in, the pattern has become grimly familiar. Shortly after 9:00 p.m. Eastern on 20 July, U.S. Central Command announced it had finished another round of strikes on Iran — the tenth consecutive night — hitting military command centres, missile and...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Jakarta s'est mise en quête d'un avion de combat de première ligne et est rentrée avec un système d'entraînement très intelligent capable de riposter. Le 21 juillet à Farnborough, Leonardo et son partenaire indonésien PT ESystem Solutions ont signé un contrat avec le ministère indonésien de la Défense pour 12….
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
L'Australie a construit le Ghost Bat. L'Europe, il s'avère, a discrètement apporté son aide depuis le début – et à Farnborough, Boeing l'a enfin admis publiquement. Le 21 juillet, Glen Ferguson, directeur mondial du programme MQ-28, a confirmé que l'italien Leonardo était devenu un partenaire officiel….
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Modern air defense has a money problem, and everybody knows it. A single Patriot shot can cost more than the drone it swats down, and in a war where the incoming threats are cheap and endless, the math eventually breaks the defender, not the attacker. At Farnborough...
Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
There is a company on the New York Stock Exchange today whose name is a peace treaty between two men who spent a decade trying to destroy each other in court. Orville and Wilbur Wright patented powered flight. Glenn Curtiss started building aeroplanes anyway. The...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
At 5:55 on the evening of Friday 4 October 1918, a small biplane with cardboard wings and a papier-mâché body lifted off a wheeled dolly running down a portable track near Dayton, Ohio. There was nobody aboard and nobody controlling it. It was supposed to fly a preset...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
The test subject was a pig. It was chosen because its nervous system is close enough to a human’s for the results to mean something, and because nobody was quite willing to find out the other way first. The pig was harnessed to a nylon line, a helium balloon...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
On the afternoon of 7 July 1946, Howard Hughes was seventy-five minutes into the first official flight of his new reconnaissance aircraft when the right side of it stopped cooperating. Every instrument said the engine was fine. It was. What had failed was one half of...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
It sat on the ground at twenty-two degrees nose-up, which meant the pilot could not see forward at all. To take off and land he looked down through windows cut into the floor at his feet. The Vought V-173 was a flat disc with two enormous propellers on the front and...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
The Germans had radar too. Theirs was arguably better — Freya operated on a shorter wavelength, used a smaller steerable antenna, and gave sharper resolution than anything the British had strung along their coastline. It did the Luftwaffe no good whatsoever, because...
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