Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
When a magnitude-7.4 earthquake tore through western Colombia on Aug. 10, 2026, the American response arrived on four jet engines. Within days, U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster III transports were touching down in Bogotá and Medellín, their cargo holds...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
As choking smoke spreads over Borneo, Indonesia is fighting fire with the weather itself. On Aug. 21, 2026, five more Indonesian Air Force aircraft lifted off from Abdulrachman Saleh Air Base in Malang, bound for the burning provinces of West and East Kalimantan....
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
The U.S. Air Force plans to buy 38 F-35 stealth fighters next year. Its most influential advocacy group says that is nowhere near enough, and that the real number should be at least 60, every single year. In a letter to Congressional leaders this week, the Air &...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
On Aug. 18, 2026, off the Goto Islands in Nagasaki Prefecture, Japanese fighter pilots were sent up to shadow an unusual pair drifting across the East China Sea. One was a Chinese Y-9 electronic-warfare aircraft. The other had no one aboard at all: a Tengden TB-001...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
On Aug. 21, 2026, at Malmen Air Base in Sweden, Saab chose the Swedish Air Force’s 100th birthday to pull the cover off its vision of the next one hundred years. Standing on the floor was a full-scale mock-up of a tailless, stealthy, supersonic drone, an...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Qatar is about to stop borrowing other people’s gas stations. On Aug. 20, 2026, the US State Department signed off on a possible $4.5 billion sale of four Boeing KC-46A Pegasus tankers to the Qatar Emiri Air Force, a deal that would let the small, cash-rich Gulf...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
For the first time, one of the smallest and cheapest fighters in Europe has reached far beyond the horizon. On Aug. 21, 2026, a Swedish Air Force JAS 39 Gripen C released a live Taurus KEPD 350 cruise missile over the Vidsel Test Range in Norrbotten, in the Arctic...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Long Beach harbor, the morning of 2 November 1947, smelled of salt, diesel and quiet disappointment. Bobbing in the channel was the largest flying machine humanity had ever bolted together: a wooden flying boat the length of two-thirds of a football pitch, with a...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
On the morning of 15 April 1969, a lumbering four-engine reconnaissance aircraft climbed away from a Japanese airfield on a mission its crew had flown, in one form or another, roughly 200 times in three months without incident. It was routine. It was rated minimal...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Breaking — The US Navy is internally weighing whether to rename the future aircraft carrier CVN-81, currently designated the future USS Doris Miller, and could potentially name it after President Donald Trump, CNN reported on 20 August 2026 in an exclusive that has...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
On the morning of 20 February 1959, a factory outside Toronto was building the most advanced interceptor in the Western world. By that afternoon it was building nothing at all. Prime Minister John Diefenbaker had risen in the House of Commons and killed the Avro Arrow...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Above the Sea of Japan the air was thin and lethally cold, the clouds below him packed like dirty cotton. It was Royce Williams’ second flight of the day, 18 November 1952, and his Grumman Panther was clawing past 12,000 feet when the radio crackled: bogeys,...
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