Aviazione militare, Notizia
Share this story On 10 August, Ukrainian drones hit the Taneco refinery at Nizhnekamsk in Tatarstan, 1,200 kilometres from Ukraine. We covered it in Ukraine Hits Russia’s Deepest Refinery Yet. Ten days later they went back and hit it again. That is the part...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
Share this story In April, the Chief of Naval Operations said the Navy would name the winner of the F/A-XX competition in August. The Defense Secretary said August. The Acting Navy Secretary said August. There is now one week of August left, and no announcement. We...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
Share this story The first generation of America’s robot fighters is already being built. The second generation is still an argument about engines. Speaking at the Air Force’s Life Cycle Industry Days conference in Dayton, Ohio, senior acquisition...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
Share this story A fighter has a fixed number of places to hang things. Wings, fuselage, wingtips. Every pylon you fill with a bomb is a pylon you cannot fill with fuel, a targeting pod, or a missile to defend yourself with. That arithmetic has constrained air...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
Share this story America’s defence against an intercontinental ballistic missile aimed at its homeland currently rests on 44 interceptors: 40 buried in silos at Fort Greely, Alaska, and four at Vandenberg in California. The design dates to the early 2000s. The...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
Share this story For years the U.S. Navy has had a problem it could not shoot its way out of. Its best long-range air-to-air missile, the AIM-174B Gunslinger, is a magnificent weapon that only the F/A-18E/F Super Hornet can carry, and only hanging off a wing where...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
Share this story The first of Taiwan’s brand-new F-16V fighters are on their way home, and China’s state media wants everyone to know it is not impressed. Two single-seat F-16V Block 70s left the United States on 17 August 2026, routing through Fort Worth,...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
Condividi questa storia Immagina la riunione di presentazione. È il 1948, l'era dei jet è appena agli albori e qualcuno della Marina degli Stati Uniti si alza e dice: e se il caccia decollasse dall'oceano? Nessuna portaerei. Nessuna pista. Solo un jet supersonico ad ala delta, che fa sci d'acqua...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
Condividi questa storia Per la prima volta, la Cina ha portato in Africa uno dei suoi caccia di peso massimo. Una formazione di aerei d'attacco Shenyang J-16 è atterrata in una base aerea egiziana nelle prime ore del 21 agosto 2026, inaugurando la seconda edizione dell'evento "Aquile di...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Notizia
Share this story United Airlines is about to open a box it has been rattling for weeks. On Tuesday, 25 August 2026, the carrier plans to roll out its first Airbus A321XLR at a hangar event in Newark and, alongside the jet, announce a batch of new international routes...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
Share this story When a magnitude-7.4 earthquake tore through western Colombia on Aug. 10, 2026, the American response arrived on four jet engines. Within days, U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster III transports were touching down in Bogotá and Medellín,...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
Share this story The U.S. Air Force plans to buy 38 F-35 stealth fighters next year. Its most influential advocacy group says that is nowhere near enough, and that the real number should be at least 60, every single year. In a letter to Congressional leaders this...
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