Share this story A short clip posted to Instagram this week shows something that would have been unthinkable a decade ago: a jet-powered combat aircraft, no cockpit, no pilot, settling onto a desert runway on its own. The aircraft is Anduril’s YFQ-44A Fury. The...
Partagez cette histoire : Frank Kendall, qui a été secrétaire à l’Air Force des États-Unis de juillet 2021 à janvier 2025, a passé trois jours début septembre 2026 à développer le même argument à trois reprises : dans une tribune publiée dans le New York Times le 1er septembre, dans une interview….
Partagez cette information. Le 2 septembre 2026, l'armée de l'air indienne a publié deux photographies sur X : une bombe en vol plané et l'explosion qui a mis fin à sa trajectoire. Le texte d'accompagnement annonçait le largage réussi d'une bombe planante à longue portée de conception indienne, appelée….
Partagez cette histoire. Le jeudi 3 septembre 2026, vers sept heures du matin, dans le village de Probuzhdeniye, près d'Engels, dans la région de Saratov en Russie, un homme à moto, le visage dissimulé par un casque, a tiré deux coups de pistolet sur un militaire, puis….
Share this story On or around 31 August 2026, over an Egyptian air base, a Chinese tanker extended its hose and refuelled a French-built Rafale. The Egyptian military spokesman released the image; Chinese accounts amplified it within hours. It is, as far as anyone can...
Share this story For the second time in four days, Polish fighters have been scrambled to meet a Russian Il-20 reconnaissance aircraft over the Baltic Sea. On Thursday afternoon, 3 September 2026, the four-engined turboprop was intercepted roughly 40 kilometres north...
Share this story It is the question we get asked more than any other, and it is the one question about fighter aircraft that has no honest single answer. The problem is not that nobody knows. The problem is that “best” is four or five different questions...
Share this story Inside the glider, in the dark, the tank crew sat in their tank with the engine running. The exhaust was ducted out through the side of the aircraft. When the glider stopped moving, the driver pulled a lanyard to release the shackles and drove...
Share this story Every flying boat is a compromise between two incompatible shapes. To get off the water you want a deep hull, to keep the propellers clear of spray, and a wing sitting at a high angle so it will unstick. To fly efficiently you want neither of those...
Share this story Four open-cockpit biplanes left Seattle on 6 April 1924 to fly around the world. They had no radios. Their engines were surplus wartime Liberty V-12s. Their crews navigated by map, compass and coastline, and when they needed to cross an ocean they...
Share this story She would climb to around four thousand metres, roll the Stuka onto its back, and put it into a near-vertical dive to test the brakes and the sight she had helped design. Then she would do it again. On a good day, fifteen times. Melitta von...
Partagez cette histoire. Regardez un Blohm & Voss BV 141 de face et votre cerveau proteste. Le moteur et l'empennage sont à gauche. L'équipage est installé dans une nacelle vitrée à droite. Il n'y a pas de fuselage au milieu, car il n'y a pas de milieu. On dirait deux appareils différents….
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