Aviazione militare, Notizia
For more than sixty years, “Air Force One” has meant one specific shade of pale blue — the robin’s-egg scheme drawn up for John F. Kennedy in 1962. On 19 June, a different 747 rolled into the light inside a hangar at Joint Base Andrews, and the blue was gone.In its...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
It sounds like paperwork: a pilot from one Air Force unit flew an aircraft alongside a pilot from another. Except the aircraft was the B-21 Raider — the most secret new warplane in the world — and one of the men at the controls was a frontline combat pilot, not a test...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
On 16 June a brand-new F-35A lifted off from Fort Worth, flew for about an hour, and came home behind a chase jet. Routine — except for two black letters painted on its tail: WW.Those letters make aircraft 24-5970 the first F-35 ever to wear the Wild Weasel tail code....
Aviazione militare, Notizia
A hypersonic missile usually costs about as much as a small mansion — tens of millions of dollars per shot, hand-built, hoarded like crown jewels. The U.S. Navy just placed an order for a hypersonic missile it hopes to buy for the price of a modest house: somewhere...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
It costs north of a hundred million dollars, it is the most sophisticated fighter the United States builds, and on the morning of 9 June it was sitting on a two-lane road in the Finnish woods, taking on fuel with pine trees a wingspan away.Two U.S. Marine Corps F-35B...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
Here is something you do not see every day: Boeing builds a brand-new jet trainer, wins the U.S. Air Force contract, and then tells the U.S. Navy, no thanks. On June 12, the company confirmed it will not bid the T-7A Red Hawk for the Navy’s Undergraduate Jet...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
Just after noon on June 13, 2026, residents around Rimrock Lake heard the kind of sound that doesn’t belong over a quiet stretch of the Washington Cascades: a fighter jet, low and fast, then a series of sharp pops. Seconds later a U.S. Marine Corps F/A-18D Hornet...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Notizia
Qatar Airways is heading back to the City of Brotherly Love. The Gulf carrier confirmed in June 2026 that it will relaunch daily nonstop service between its Doha hub and Philadelphia on 1 August 2026 — reclaiming a US East Coast gateway it abandoned in 2023, and...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
Singapore sta per compiere un'impresa che solo una manciata di forze aeree al mondo può vantare: far volare un caccia stealth di quinta generazione. Dopo anni di pratiche burocratiche, valutazioni e dibattiti parlamentari, l'Aeronautica militare della Repubblica di Singapore (RSAF) è sulla buona strada per ricevere il suo primo...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
L'aeronautica militare statunitense ha cercato di dismettere l'A-10 Warthog per quasi vent'anni. Bilancio dopo bilancio, i vertici ne avevano segnato la fine. E ogni volta, qualcosa si rifiutava di lasciarlo andare in silenzio. Questa volta è stato l'Iran. Dopo settimane di bombardamenti con i Warthog...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
Per un decennio l'aeronautica militare statunitense ha cercato di seppellire l'F-15. Il piano era quello di acquistare un lotto simbolico di nuovi Eagle, per poi lasciare che la linea di produzione si estinguesse silenziosamente mentre tutto si concentrava sulla tecnologia stealth. L'Eagle apparteneva al passato. L'F-35 e il jet segreto di sesta generazione erano...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
The desert air was still cool at Edwards Air Force Base on the morning of 27 August 1990 when Northrop chief test pilot Paul Metz taxied out in a machine that looked like nothing else on Earth. Charcoal grey, diamond-winged, its two tails canted outward like the fins...
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