Mondo dell'aviazione, Notizia
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 giant.Boeing and Airbus are...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
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 and DARPA have put...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
Nel pomeriggio del 12 settembre 1943, una serie di fragili alianti di compensato atterrò su un altopiano roccioso in alta quota nell'Appennino italiano, proprio di fronte a un albergo di montagna. Da essi uscirono paracadutisti tedeschi e commando delle SS. Nel giro di pochi minuti...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Storia e leggende
At 27,000 feet over Germany, the air was minus 60 degrees and Charlie Brown’s bomber was dying. Half its engines were gone or failing. The nose was blown open to the wind. The tail gunner was dead, other crewmen were bleeding on the freezing deck, and the young pilot...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Notizia
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 to join the Global...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
Somewhere over the Mojave Desert this month, an aircraft with no pilot, no ejection seat and no name stenciled under a canopy did something no American drone had ever done. It fired an air-to-air missile at a target. The jet was Anduril’s YFQ-44A Fury. The weapon was...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
A carrier is only as capable as the people who work its deck. On 14 July 2026, the People’s Liberation Army Navy released imagery that made this point plainly: J-15-family fighters running full-cycle takeoff and landing training on land, methodically expanding the...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
South Korea just made its most battle-tested fighter a great deal harder to shoot down — and it did so not with a shiny new jet, but with a box of very clever electronics bolted deep inside the ones it already flies. On 13 July 2026, BAE Systems confirmed a contract...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
For two decades, the taxpayers who foot the bill for the most expensive weapon in human history got one honest annual accounting of it: the Government Accountability Office’s yearly review of the F-35. This year, the Pentagon locked it in a drawer. The GAO confirmed...
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