Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Russian sources say the Su-35S has taken on a new and demanding job over Ukraine: hunting the radars that guide enemy air defences. Footage circulated on 22 August 2026 purports to show an Su-35 launching a Kh-31PM anti-radiation missile at a Ukrainian air-defence...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
India’s most ambitious home-built fighter has drawn sharp criticism from an unlikely quarter: one of the officers who helped run the air force until weeks ago. Air Marshal Nagesh Kapoor, who stepped down as the Indian Air Force’s Vice Chief less than two...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
For the first time, China has flown one of its heavyweight fighters to Africa. A formation of Shenyang J-16 strike jets touched down at an Egyptian air base early on 21 August 2026, opening the second edition of the “Eagles of Civilization” joint exercise...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Ukraine mounted one of its deepest strikes of the summer overnight on 22 August 2026, sending long-range drones more than 1,000 kilometres into Russia’s Samara region. By morning two sites were burning: the Novokuibyshevsk oil refinery, part of Rosneft, and...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Approchez-vous d'un Antonov An-22 au moment où ses moteurs démarrent et vous ne vous contenterez pas de l'entendre, vous le ressentirez. Quatre des turbopropulseurs les plus puissants jamais construits font tourner huit hélices gigantesques, chaque pale décrivant un cercle plus haut qu'une maison, et le son est un grondement profond et déchirant….
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
On a summer morning in 2024, thousands of people lined the shores of Vancouver Island to say goodbye to a 79-year-old giant. The Hawaii Mars, the largest flying boat still in the air anywhere in the world, lifted off the water one last time, escorted by the Canadian...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Most fighter jets are built to twist and turn. The MiG-31 Foxhound was built to do something far simpler and far more frightening: go very fast, in a straight line, and catch things nothing else could. Nearly half a century after its first flight, it is still the...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
In the summer of 1940, outnumbered RAF fighter pilots kept turning up in exactly the right place to meet the Luftwaffe, again and again. To the Germans it looked like uncanny luck. It was nothing of the sort. Along the coast of Britain stood a line of tall steel...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
On a warm night in the summer of 1915, Londoners looked up from their blacked-out streets and heard something no city had ever heard before: the steady drone of engines coming out of the dark, high overhead. Moments later, bombs began to fall from a vast silver shape...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
In the last spring of the Second World War, Dutch children ran into the open fields as British bombers roared overhead, not to hide, but to wave. Because these Lancasters were not carrying bombs. They were raining down bread, tinned meat and chocolate on a nation that...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
On the night of Aug. 17, 1943, a rocket engineer named Wernher von Braun walked back to his quarters on a quiet stretch of the German Baltic coast and looked up. A full moon hung over the secret research town of Peenemünde. Then the first flares blossomed in the...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Bulgaria has spent years trying to drag its air force into the NATO era, and it has just been handed some unwelcome news. The second batch of eight brand-new F-16 Block 70 fighters, once promised by the end of 2027, may not arrive until 2030. Lockheed Martin has told...
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