Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
When we wrote last week that NATO’s next radar jet would be Swedish, the news still wore the modest clothing of a Reuters exclusive. On Tuesday in Ankara, it acquired numbers, signatures and a price tag. Secretary General Mark Rutte confirmed that the Alliance...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
The sirens came before the sunrise. In Manama’s old quarters and along Kuwait City’s waterfront towers, the same rising wail that Gulf residents have learned by heart this year pulled families out of bed and into stairwells in the small hours of Wednesday...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Six years ago the United States took Turkey’s F-35s away. The jets Ankara had already paid for went into storage in the Arizona desert, Turkish pilots were sent home from Luke Air Force Base, and roughly 100 stealth fighters on order evaporated. On Tuesday,...
Monde de l'aviation, Nouvelles
The Boeing 737 freighter working K2 Airways flight 1732 on Tuesday evening was less than an hour from home. It had left Sharjah for Karachi with five crew and a hold full of cargo, a two-hour hop across the Arabian Sea that Pakistani freight operators fly so often it...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Eighty targets. One night. That is CENTCOM’s answer to Iran shooting at oil tankers again. Overnight into Wednesday, US forces worked their way down a target list across southern Iran: air defense systems, command-and-control networks, coastal radar sites,...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Pakistan is on course to fly something no air force outside China has ever operated: a Chinese stealth fighter. The Pakistan Air Force has moved to acquire the Shenyang J-35 — reportedly up to 40 jets — in what would be the first export sale of a Chinese...
Monde de l'aviation, Nouvelles
Sydney dispose désormais d'une nouvelle voie d'accès à l'Asie, ornée d'une touche de batik malaisien. À compter du 1er juillet 2026, Batik Air Malaysia assurera une liaison quotidienne en Airbus A330 entre Kuala Lumpur et Sydney, quatrième destination desservie par la compagnie en Australie et marquant un tournant décisif dans son développement.
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Dans le désert de l'extrême ouest de la Chine, un satellite de passage a surpris quelque chose que Pékin préférerait garder secret : deux énormes ailes volantes furtives, stationnées à découvert sur un aérodrome isolé – la plus grande d'entre elles étant presque aussi large qu'un bombardier américain B-2.
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
There is one aircraft the United States hopes it never has to use for its real job: the plane that would relay the order to launch nuclear missiles from America’s submerged submarines. Its replacement is now running late — and the government watchdog that warned about...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Ten minutes after lifting off from New York on Independence Day, climbing through 15,800 feet, the crew of a NetJets business jet saw something big and silver flash past their windscreen — close enough to report it. Then it was gone. They keyed the radio and told air...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Britain has put a number on its future: £298 billion. That is the size of the Defence Investment Plan unveiled at the end of June, the government’s four-year blueprint for rebuilding an armed forces bent on fighting “the wars of today and tomorrow.” It is a genuinely...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Un chiffre provenant d'un laboratoire chinois circule beaucoup, et il est frappant : 95 %. D'après une simulation informatique, c'est la fréquence à laquelle un Chengdu J-20 l'emporte sur un F-22 Raptor américain lors d'un combat aérien au nord de Taïwan. Mais à y regarder de plus près….
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