Partagez cet article. Pendant des années, l'une des rumeurs les plus futuristes concernant le nouveau bombardier furtif américain était qu'il pourrait se passer d'un équipage important ; que le B-21 Raider pourrait voler avec un seul pilote, voire sans aucun pilote à terme. Ce mois-ci, l'armée de l'air a démenti cette hypothèse….
Partagez cet article : Le projet de défense le plus coûteux de l’histoire américaine a désormais un nom. Le 17 juillet 2026, le Sénat a confirmé la nomination du général Michael A. Guetlein, commandant de la Force spatiale, à la tête du Dôme d’or, le projet du président Trump visant à déployer un bouclier antimissile au-dessus de la Terre.
Share this story Britain owns a fleet of the most capable aerial tankers on the market — and cannot use them to refuel some of its own most important aircraft. It is one of the quiet embarrassments of the Royal Air Force, and after fifteen years the RAF has finally...
Share this story For years the Indian Air Force could see the enemy long before it could hit him. Chinese fighters and airborne radar planes carry missiles that reach out past 200 kilometres; India’s Su-30MKI fleet, its heaviest hitter, had nothing that could match...
Share this story Most airlines paint their jets. Taiwan’s STARLUX hired one of the world’s most famous artists to turn an Airbus A350-1000 into a mirror-finished flying sculpture — and on 15 July, it flew the thing across the Pacific to Phoenix.Flight JX026...
Share this story Two and a half weeks after it flew its very first paying passengers, Saudi Arabia’s brand-new airline has been handed the keys to the world’s second-biggest aviation market. Riyadh Air is going to China.The Civil Aviation Administration of China has...
Partagez cette histoire. Un pétrolier commercial naviguait en eaux internationales en direction de l'Iran lorsqu'un avion américain a tiré des missiles Hellfire sur sa cheminée. Le navire s'est immobilisé. Il s'agissait, en termes simples, d'un blocus aérien – et il l'est toujours….
Share this story Eighty years ago, a fat-bellied flying boat called the PBY Catalina rescued downed airmen, sank submarines and crossed oceans on missions that lasted a full day and night. Its type certificate has quietly survived ever since. Now someone wants to...
Share this story The Pentagon has decided the next war will be won by arithmetic. Not by a handful of exquisite, million-dollar missiles, but by thousands of cheap ones — enough to swamp any air defence ever built.On 16 July the Department of War signed...
Share this story The fiercest duel at this year’s Farnborough International Airshow will not be flown by any display pilot. It will be fought across a conference table, over roughly one hundred single-aisle jets and the signature of one Dublin-based leasing...
Share this story For two years the jets sat in a hangar at Eglin Air Force Base while engineers tore into their airframes and taught them to think. This week one of them finally flew — and for stretches of that flight, no human was flying it.The U.S. Air Force...
Share this story Canada already knows what its next fighter looks like: the F-35A, dozens of which are on order. And yet Ottawa has just reached for a very different aircraft — one being designed in London, Rome and Tokyo. Reporting on July 15 said Canada has agreed...
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