Aviazione militare, Notizia
Share this story A ground-based IRIS-T battery can reach about eight miles in its short-range form, or roughly 25 miles in the medium-range version. Useful numbers, until the thing you need to shoot down is 200 miles away and heading for a city. So Diehl Defence and a...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
Share this story In the autumn of 1982, eight Soviet bombers came down on the USS Enterprise and USS Midway in the North Pacific and locked their radars on both carriers from about 190 kilometres out. The US Navy’s response was deliberately restrained, because...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
Share this story Ask a large language model for the combat radius of a foreign fighter and it will give you a number. Confident, specific, formatted like a fact. It may also be entirely invented. That is an inconvenience if you are writing a school essay. It is...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
Share this story On 14 August 2026 the Russian state news agency TASS reported that the two-seat Su-57D will be used to test combat artificial intelligence under development at the Sukhoi Design Bureau. The source was Mikhail Strelets, the bureau’s director,...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
Share this story Correction — 24 August 2026This report followed Ukraine’s Unmanned Systems Forces in identifying one of the aircraft struck at Vityazevo as a Su-33. Analysts examining the released footage have since assessed, from the raised fairing...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
Share this story Every elegant aircraft has an ungainly predecessor. Before the Hawker Siddeley Harrier hovered over Falklands task forces and Marine Corps flight decks, there was the Hawker P.1127: a stubby, bug-eyed prototype that looked less like a fighter than an...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
Share this story Before the Lancaster, before the B-17, before the very idea of a four-engined heavy bomber was settled doctrine, one already existed — and it was bombing London. The Zeppelin-Staaken R.VI, built from 1916, was a four-engined biplane with a...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
Share this story On the morning of 27 August 1939, over the Heinkel works at Rostock-Marienehe, a small, stub-nosed monoplane lifted off with a sound no one had heard from an aeroplane before: a rising, tearing howl in place of the familiar hammer of pistons. It was...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
Condividi questa storia Alla fine degli anni '30, il Focke-Wulf Fw 200 Condor fu, per un breve periodo, l'aereo di linea più moderno in circolazione: un monoplano pulito, quadrimotore, in grado di attraversare un oceano senza scalo. Nel giro di tre anni, la stessa elegante cellula si estendeva ben oltre...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
Condividi questa storia Fonti russe affermano che il Su-35S ha assunto un nuovo e impegnativo compito sull'Ucraina: dare la caccia ai radar che guidano le difese aeree nemiche. Un filmato diffuso il 22 agosto 2026 sembra mostrare un Su-35 che lancia un missile antiradar Kh-31PM contro un...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
Condividi questa storia. Avvicinarsi a un Antonov An-22 mentre i suoi motori vengono avviati non significa solo sentirne il rumore, ma percepirlo. Quattro dei motori turboelica più potenti mai costruiti fanno girare otto enormi eliche, ciascuna pala descrive un cerchio più alto di una casa, e il suono è...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Storia e leggende
Share this story No engine. No jet fuel. No rocket. Just a slender white sailplane, its long wings feeding on invisible rivers of rising air, climbing higher than a U-2 spy plane into the freezing black of the stratosphere. In 2018, the engineless Perlan 2 glider...
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