Share this story Singapore has a habit of buying the best fighter it can find, years before it strictly needs it — and doing so quietly. So when reports emerged on 30 July that the city-state has opened exploratory talks around the Global Combat Air Programme,...
Share this story A stealth aircraft that hangs its bombs under the wings is not really a stealth aircraft. The whole point of a low-observable shape is undone the moment you bolt angular metal to the outside of it. That is why the milestone Baykar announced on 30 July...
Share this story The cheapest weapon on a modern battlefield is a drone you can buy online. The U.S. Air Force has just answered it in Europe with one of the most futuristic: a laser. Quietly, and at locations it will not name, U.S. Air Forces in Europe has fielded...
Share this story On Friday, the flags came down at Ämari. Portuguese airmen who had spent months guarding the Baltic sky handed the watch to a new crew, and for the first time the pilots taking over spoke Turkish. Five Turkish F-16 Fighting Falcons are now sitting...
Share this story Black smoke over San Diego is never a good sign. On Friday morning, it meant a stealth fighter was down. A U.S. Marine Corps F-35B Lightning II crashed in the vicinity of Marine Corps Air Station Miramar shortly before 10 a.m. Pacific time, sending a...
Partagez cette histoire. En 1942, Eddie Rickenbacker avait déjà échappé à la mort plus de fois que la plupart des hommes ne le font. Il était l'“ As des as ” américain de la Première Guerre mondiale, un ancien pilote des 500 Miles d'Indianapolis et le patron autoritaire d'Eastern Air Lines. Il….
Share this story On paper, the Yakovlev Yak-38 looked like Moscow’s answer to the Harrier: a jet that could rise straight off a deck with no catapult, hover, and land vertically. In practice it was one of the most compromised combat aircraft of the Cold War.The...
Share this story Before dawn on New Year’s Day 1945, while much of the Allied camp slept off its celebrations, hundreds of German fighters lifted off in near-total silence. No radios. Incomplete maps. Pilots who, in many cases, had been told only minutes earlier...
Partagez cette histoire. Il avait vingt et un ans, était le fils d'un mineur de cuivre de Phoenix, avec une allure de boxeur et une fâcheuse tendance à désobéir aux ordres. En septembre dernier, à la fin de la Première Guerre mondiale, le sous-lieutenant Frank Luke Jr. devint le chasseur de ballons le plus redouté….
Share this story Grumman built the F8F Bearcat around one brutal idea: take the biggest engine America had and wrap the smallest possible aeroplane around it. The result was less a fighter than an engine with a saddle — an 18-cylinder radial hauling a...
Partagez cette histoire. Le matin du 21 septembre 1953, sur la base aérienne de Kimpo, un avion à réaction à ailes en flèche s'apprêtait à atterrir. Les pilotes le prirent pour un de leurs F-86 Sabre. Il s'agissait en réalité d'un MiG-15 de fabrication soviétique, arborant encore les étoiles rouges nord-coréennes….
Share this story On Christmas Eve 1944, American troops dug in near Liège heard something wrong in the sky. Not the familiar growl of piston engines, but a smooth, piercing roar. Sleek aircraft swept overhead, dropped their bombs, and simply accelerated away....
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