Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
For nearly two weeks starting February 27, 2026, something almost unprecedented happened in the Taiwan Strait: nothing. Chinese warplanes stayed home. Taiwan’s Ministry of National Defense logged zero PLAAF activity on 11 out of 13 consecutive days — including a...
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Six names. That is what the U.S. Air Force released on March 14, 2026, two days after a KC-135 Stratotanker crashed in Iraq. Maj. John Klinner. Capt. Ariana Savino. Tech. Sgt. Ashley Pruitt. Capt. Seth Koval. Capt. Curtis Angst. Tech. Sgt. Tyler Simmons. Investigators...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
They looked like canned food, Iranian villagers said. Small cylindrical objects scattered across the streets and fields of Kafari, a village on the southern outskirts of Shiraz. Within hours, Bellingcat had identified them: BLU-91/B scatterable anti-tank landmines,...
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The video is grainy, shot from the ground near Chabahar — a port city on Iran’s remote eastern coast. A U.S. Navy F/A-18 Super Hornet screams low overhead, its 20mm cannon blazing. Then a streak of smoke rises from below. The aircraft breaks hard left. The...
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On March 24, 2026, a video emerged from Ukraine that stopped aviation watchers in their tracks. A Soviet-era piston trainer, the Yak-52 — designed in the 1970s to teach student pilots basic aerobatics — had just downed a Russian Geran-2 kamikaze drone using a rifle...
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Why one was won in days and the other drags into year four Two ongoing conflicts. Two air forces attempting to dominate enemy skies. Two very different outcomes. The contrast between how Israel and the United States established air superiority over Iran — and how...
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Japan’s newest and most unusual-looking military aircraft — the Kawasaki EC-2 stand-off jammer, nicknamed the “Platypus” for its ungainly but purpose-built shape — completed its maiden flight on March 17, 2026, lifting off from Gifu Air Base at 11:30...
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A B-52H Stratofortress has been photographed in flight over California carrying two inert examples of the AGM-181 Long-Range Standoff (LRSO) missile — the nuclear-armed weapon system designed to replace the United States’ aging AGM-86 Air Launched Cruise Missile...
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Ce qui semble être le drone le plus secret des États-Unis — le Northrop Grumman RQ-180 classifié — a été photographié au-dessus de la ville de Larissa, en Grèce, le 18 mars 2026, fournissant ce que les analystes qualifient d'image publique la plus claire de l'appareil...
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Le photographe aéronautique Jarod Hamilton a capturé les images les plus nettes à ce jour d'un F-22A Raptor volant avec des réservoirs de carburant externes furtifs et des nacelles de capteurs spécialisées sur la base aérienne d'Edwards le 21 mars 2026, offrant ainsi l'aperçu le plus clair à ce jour d'un appareil important...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
La Corée du Sud a franchi une étape historique le 25 mars 2026, lorsque le premier avion de chasse KF-21 Boramae de série est sorti de l'usine Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI) de Sacheon par ses propres moyens, marquant ainsi le début d'un nouveau chapitre dans l'histoire de la nation...
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