Share this story By the summer of 1944 the Fifteenth Air Force had lost 350 bombers over the Ploiesti oil fields, and a great many of the men who fell out of them came down in occupied Serbia. They were not captured. They were hidden — in barns, in hayricks, in...
Share this story On 4 September 2026, an Air China Airbus A330-200 is scheduled to lift off from Beijing, stop for three hours in Bucharest, and continue to Zagreb. When it lands, Croatia will have a scheduled year-round air link to mainland China for the first time....
Condividi questa storia L'Iraq utilizza già il Bell 407. Il 31 agosto 2026 il Dipartimento di Stato americano ha autorizzato l'acquisto di un numero molto maggiore di questi elicotteri, insieme a un modello più grande e a un numero sufficiente di armi, razzi e sensori per trasformare gli elicotteri utility in ricognitori armati. L'approvazione,...
Share this story Egypt was the first country outside France to buy the Rafale. Eleven years later, it may be about to become the type’s biggest foreign customer by a wide margin. On 2 September 2026 the French daily La Tribune reported that Cairo has submitted a...
Share this story The treeline is close enough to count individual trees. The horizon sits high in the windscreen, the ground blurring past in green streaks, and somewhere ahead a small jet-powered cruise missile is running for a Ukrainian city at roughly the speed of...
Share this story The runway at RAF Lyneham on the morning of 22 July 1966 held one of the least likely aeroplanes in Britain: a Lightning interceptor with no canopy, a disarmed ejection seat, its undercarriage pinned down, and a man in the cockpit who was wearing no...
Condividi questa storia I kuwaitiani si sono svegliati prima dell'alba di mercoledì con il suono che il loro governo aveva già preannunciato: il decollo dei missili intercettori della difesa aerea. Per la seconda volta in tre giorni, l'Iran aveva lanciato missili e droni contro basi americane sul suolo kuwaitiano. Il...
Share this story Ukraine spent three years learning how to shoot down Shaheds cheaply. Machine guns on pickup trucks. Electronic warfare. Then, cleverest of all, small propeller-driven interceptor drones that cost a few thousand dollars and rammed a target worth far...
Condividi questa storia Una delle navi da guerra più potenti della Terra è appena arrivata a fatica in un porto thailandese, con l'aspetto di un relitto ritrovato in una discarica. Dopo 286 giorni in mare, la portaerei a propulsione nucleare USS Abraham Lincoln è attraccata a Laem Chabang, vicino a Pattaya, ricoperta di ruggine...
Share this story Watch a Boeing 777X fly and something looks almost alarming: the wings bend. A lot. In gusty air the tips ride metres above where they sit on the ground, flexing like a diving board. Passengers new to it sometimes gasp. But that enormous flex is not a...
Share this story The Boeing B-52 Stratofortress has been in service for seventy years and is on course to fly for a hundred. It has outlasted the Soviet Union, the propeller, and most of the engineers who designed it. And the design that made all of that possible...
Condividi questa storia La Corea del Sud ha appena terminato la costruzione del suo primo caccia di produzione nazionale e sta già pensando al prossimo, e questa volta vuole saltare una generazione. Seoul ha formalmente avviato lo studio di fattibilità per un caccia stealth di sesta generazione...
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