Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
The Germans had a word for it. They always do. When Luftwaffe pilots talked about the Panavia Tornado, they called it the eierlegende Wollmilchsau — the “egg-laying wool-milk pig.” A mythical creature that does everything: lays eggs, produces wool, gives...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
Before dawn on 14 June, two Royal Air Force Chinook helicopters thundered low over the English Channel toward a 244-metre oil tanker flying the flag of Cameroon. Hanging beneath them, silhouetted against the first grey light, were Royal Marines from Kilo Company, 42...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
Per oltre sei decenni, ogni aereo da caccia dell'aeronautica algerina è arrivato da un solo paese: la Russia. MiG-21, MiG-25, Su-30MKA, MiG-29: l'intera flotta da combattimento sembra un catalogo di progettisti sovietici e russi. Quest'era sta per finire. Secondo...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
A duecento miglia dal confine NATO più vicino, la Serbia sta costruendo una rete di difesa aerea progettata da Pechino e non approvata da nessuna alleanza occidentale. Il 28 giugno, il presidente Aleksandar Vučić ha confermato ciò che gli analisti della difesa sospettavano da mesi: Belgrado si sta muovendo...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
It begins, as these things often do, not with a missile but with a laptop. Somewhere in the cavernous cargo hold of a French A400M Atlas — a hold built to swallow a helicopter or a 37-tonne armoured vehicle — an operator will soon sit at a console, watching sensor...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
Walk the static line at ILA Berlin and you expect the usual choreography around a helicopter: a pilot strapping in, a crew chief signalling, the slow whine of an Arriel engine spooling up. This June, Airbus parked something stranger under the Brandenburg sun. The...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
For roughly sixteen hours on 23 June 2026, two of the largest combat aircraft ever built carved a long arc through the cold airspace of the European Arctic. Two Russian Tu-160 strategic bombers — the variable-sweep giants NATO calls “Blackjack”...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
At the Farnborough air show in 1953, the crowd hears it before they see it. Ten engines, building from a hum to a roar, and then the largest all-metal flying boat ever built slides overhead — a silver whale of an aircraft, a 219-foot wing, an ocean liner that...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
British defence programmes are not, as a rule, famous for speed. The Ajax armoured vehicle spent eight years mired in delay; the RAF’s Wedgetail radar aircraft arrived three years late. So when three new long-range strike weapons go from a sheet of paper to a...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
For sixty years, the answer to the question “what does Vietnam fly?” has been simple: whatever Moscow sold it. MiGs, then Sukhois — a proud, entirely Russian air force. In 2026, for the first time, that answer is genuinely in doubt, and the...
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