Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
The first 100 hours of Operation Epic Fury cost approximately $3.7 billion — roughly $891 million per day. A staggering share of that went to a single, maddening problem: shooting down cheap Iranian drones with some of the most expensive aircraft on Earth. The math is...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
On March 25, a Gripen E fighter jet — designation F-39E, serial FAB 4109 — rolled out of Embraer’s facility in Gavião Peixoto, São Paulo state. It looks identical to every other Gripen E. But this one was built in Brazil, not Sweden. And that changes everything....
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
On March 25, a U.S. Navy F/A-18E/F Super Hornet screamed low over the Iranian port city of Chabahar, its M61A2 Vulcan cannon spitting 20mm rounds at targets near the Imam Ali IRGC Naval Base. Seconds later, a shoulder-fired missile streaked upward and detonated just...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Eleven months deployed out of twelve. Thousands of combat hours. The first-ever air-to-air kills for the F-35A. The 34th Fighter Squadron just earned the Raytheon Trophy — and no unit in the Air Force had a more gruelling year to show for it. The “Rude...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
For three consecutive days last week, two of America’s most secretive flying laboratories circled over the Gulf of Mexico in tight formation — and the aviation intelligence community is buzzing about what they were testing. Northrop Grumman’s heavily...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Iran’s missiles have turned Al Udeid Air Base into the most dangerous American address in the Middle East. Now CENTCOM wants to bury its nerve centre underground — but a retired three-star general says the plan is already too late. Air Forces Central issued a...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
The U.S. Marine Corps is surging fifth-generation fighters into the Middle East at a scale that signals a fundamental shift in the region’s air war. As of late March 2026, a dual-track F-35 deployment is unfolding simultaneously—carrier-based F-35Bs aboard the...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
RAF Fairford has become a American fortress. On the Gloucestershire tarmac, parked wing-tip to wing-tip, sit 21 heavy bombers—15 B-1B Lancers and 6 B-52H Stratofortresses—representing the largest forward-deployed bomber concentration since the Cold War. Three...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
A German fighter pilot sits in the cockpit of a Eurofighter Typhoon, but she’s not alone. Alongside her wingman—a sleek, autonomous drone packed with sensors and weapons—executes maneuvers no human could withstand. This isn’t science fiction. Germany is...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
A split-second left-hand turn. A missile detonating just meters behind the canopy. A pilot alive only because chance—or instinct—moved his jet out of a kill zone. On March 25, 2026, a US Navy F/A-18E Super Hornet conducted a low-altitude strafing run near Iran’s...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
On March 27, 2026, Iranian ballistic missiles and drones screamed across the Arabian Gulf and slammed into Prince Sultan Air Base south of Riyadh. When the dust settled, the damage was devastating: a U.S. Air Force E-3G Sentry early-warning aircraft sat crippled on...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
In October 2023, Turkey was expelled from the F-35 programme. The reason: Ankara had purchased the Russian S-400 air defence system, and Washington refused to risk integrating America’s most advanced stealth fighter into an air force that also operated Russian...
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