Partagez cette histoire. Durant l'été 1940, les pilotes de chasse de la RAF, pourtant en infériorité numérique, se retrouvaient invariablement au bon endroit pour affronter la Luftwaffe. Pour les Allemands, cela ressemblait à une chance incroyable. Il n'en était rien. Le long des côtes britanniques se dressait une ligne de….
Partagez cette histoire. Par une douce nuit d'été 1915, les Londoniens levèrent les yeux de leurs rues plongées dans l'obscurité et entendirent un son jamais entendu auparavant : le vrombissement régulier de moteurs surgissant des ténèbres, haut dans le ciel. Quelques instants plus tard, des bombes commencèrent à tomber….
Partagez cette histoire. Au printemps dernier, pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, des enfants néerlandais couraient dans les champs tandis que les bombardiers britanniques vrombissaient au-dessus de leurs têtes, non pas pour se cacher, mais pour leur faire signe. Car ces Lancaster ne transportaient pas de bombes. Ils larguaient du pain, de la viande en conserve et du chocolat….
Partagez cette histoire. Dans la nuit du 17 août 1943, Wernher von Braun, ingénieur en aérospatiale, rentra à son logement sur une portion tranquille de la côte baltique allemande et leva les yeux. La pleine lune brillait au-dessus de Peenemünde, ville de recherche secrète. Puis les premières fusées éclairantes….
Share this story 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...
Share this story 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,...
Share this story 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...
Share this story 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...
Share this story 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...
Share this story 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...
Share this story 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...
Share this story 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,...
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