Aviazione militare, Notizia
Somewhere over Africa this spring, a four-engine turboprop that first flew in 1954 rolled its ramp open and pushed a missile out the back. The missile fell clear, unfolded its wings, lit a small turbojet and flew away. Minutes later it was several hundred miles...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
On the morning of 21 August 1976, B-52s flew in from Guam with Phantom escorts. F-111s crossed the Pacific from Idaho. Fighters launched from Kadena, Clark, Osan and Taegu. South Korean F-5s and Sabres joined the stack. An aircraft carrier task force took station off...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
Most of the autonomy on display at National Harbor this week was fighter-shaped. Stealthy wings, missile bays, names like Vengeance and Fury. Textron brought a box. Specifically, it brought the Cessna SkyCourier UX: a certified, in-service, thoroughly unglamorous twin...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
For decades the American position on weapons in orbit was a careful non-answer. Officials talked about resilience, about protecting assets, about counter-space capability in the abstract. Nobody said the United States had put weapons up there. On Monday morning at...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
The United States bought 337 MQ-9 Reapers over the nineteen-year life of the programme. After the fighting with Iran, the Air Force has roughly 135 left, against a floor it says should be 189. That is the arithmetic behind everything that happened on the show floor at...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
The model on the show floor at National Harbor is 34 feet long and you can walk all the way around it. There is no cockpit, no canopy, no windscreen, nothing for a human head to sit behind. What there is, on top of the fuselage where an intake has no business being,...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
When the backseater known as Dude 44 Bravo broke his silence on 60 Minutes, most of the coverage went to what he said. The more durable part of the broadcast was what it showed. Alongside the interview, CBS aired video of both rescues that had not been seen publicly...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
Air Force basic training now includes a task that would have been unthinkable for a recruit ten years ago: walk up to a fighter, hang a missile on it, and do it as a team you organised yourself. The Air Base Training Range at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland is nearly...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
There was no flypast for this one. No water cannon, no speeches, no crowd on the ramp at Cherry Point. Marines took the wings off it, pulled the classified boxes out, put it on a flatbed and drove it to Florida. The aircraft is BuNo 166288, modex WP-18, and it is the...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
Just after nine on Saturday morning, a nine-seat business jet greased onto a runway built for heavy bombers. The pilot had been aiming for a quiet private airfield in the Cotswolds. He got the United States Air Force instead. The aircraft was D-CJMK, a Cessna 560XLS+...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
The US Air Force has just raised the spending ceiling on its Boeing KC-46A export contract from $5.7 billion to $19.1 billion. No aircraft were ordered. No money changed hands. It is, on paper, one of the least dramatic $13.4 billion announcements you will ever read....
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
Drag is the tax every aircraft pays for existing. On a transport aircraft in cruise, about half of that drag is nothing more than friction between the skin and the air. In the early 1960s Northrop and the United States Air Force went after that tax directly, with an...
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