Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Among the tall ships and grey hulls that filled New York Harbor for America’s 250th birthday, the strangest silhouette wasn’t a ship at all. Lashed to the flight deck of USS Nimitz, between rows of Super Hornets, sat a windowless grey machine with folded wings and no...
Monde de l'aviation, Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
On July 4, virtually everything in the US military that flies made an appearance over Washington. Three bombers in one formation. Eight Thunderbirds. A brand-new Air Force One with a Raptor escort. The one aircraft everybody on the internet was actually waiting for...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
The thermometer read over 100 degrees Fahrenheit, the crowd on the National Mall had been baking since morning, and somewhere above the haze four F-5 Tigers were pulling into formation. One of them was flown by the administrator of NASA himself. It was 1:14 p.m. on...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
On the afternoon of August 16, 1956, residents of the Los Angeles suburbs looked up to a strange and frankly alarming sight: two jet fighters chasing a lone, pilotless aircraft in tightening circles, hurling rockets at it — and missing, again and again, while the...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
At a secret airfield in the Nevada desert in the early 1980s, a test pilot lined up one of the ugliest aircraft ever built and pushed the throttles forward. It looked less like a jet than a flying shipping container — deep-bodied, boxy, with a curved back and a...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Picture an aircraft that does not sit on a runway but stands upright on its tail, nose pointed at the sky like a rocket. Around its waist spins a three-bladed wing, driven not by an engine in the fuselage but by ramjets screaming at the very tips of the blades. To...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Quelque part au-dessus du centre de la France, à la fin des années 1950, le pilote d'essai André Turcat pousse un étrange avion à aile delta au-delà de la vitesse à laquelle un réacteur classique commence à s'essouffler. C'est alors que le Nord Griffon prend vie. Derrière lui, un statoréacteur de la taille d'un petit….
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
The AGM-86B was designed when the Soviet Union still existed, gas cost about a dollar a gallon, and the B-52 crews loading it were younger than the bomber. More than four decades later, the United States has decided it cannot let the missile retire just yet. In 2026,...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Two companies. One contract. Decades of consequences. Sometime around August 2026, the US Navy is expected to decide who will build the F/A-XX — its sixth-generation carrier fighter and one of the most important American aircraft programmes of the century. The choice...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Pendant vingt ans, la réponse occidentale à la puissance aérienne chinoise a été simple : nos avions sont meilleurs. Les F-22 et F-35 surpassent en détection, en furtivité et en connectivité tout ce que Pékin peut déployer. Cela reste peut-être vrai pour chaque appareil pris individuellement. Mais cela pourrait bientôt ne plus avoir d’importance….
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Pendant des décennies, une règle a régné discrètement au cœur de la puissance aérienne occidentale : c’est un être humain qui décide si une arme tue. Le 30 juin 2026, la Grande-Bretagne s’en est progressivement éloignée. Dissimulé au sein d’un vaste plan d’investissement dans la défense – plus de 5 milliards de livres sterling consacrés aux drones, le plus important de ce type….
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