Aviazione militare, Notizia
A carrier is only as capable as the people who work its deck. On 14 July 2026, the People’s Liberation Army Navy released imagery that made this point plainly: J-15-family fighters running full-cycle takeoff and landing training on land, methodically expanding the...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
At 34 minutes past the hour on 14 July, a single-seat Eurofighter in plain grey primer rolled down the runway at Airbus’s Manching site in Bavaria, lit its two EJ200 engines and climbed away. The aircraft carried the German military registration 34+02. It was the...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
Seen from the ground, it looked like an accident waiting to happen: a single-seat fighter — a Messerschmitt Bf 109 or a Focke-Wulf Fw 190 — bolted rigidly to the spine of a twin-engined Junkers Ju 88 bomber, the two machines climbing away as one grotesque,...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
Negli anni '50, la tendenza nel settore degli aerei militari era una sola: più grandi, più pesanti, più complessi. Ed Heinemann andò nella direzione opposta. Quando la Marina degli Stati Uniti chiese alla Douglas un nuovo aereo d'attacco a reazione, imponendo un limite di peso di 30.000 libbre, Heinemann presentò un progetto che...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
Il problema era la geometria. Una diga tedesca nel 1943 era un muro di muratura spesso più di trenta metri alla base, protetto da reti antisiluro nell'acqua e cannoni antiaerei sulla sommità. Una bomba sganciata dall'alto avrebbe mancato il bersaglio; un siluro si sarebbe impigliato nelle reti; una mina...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
The United States plans to rely on the AGM-181 to keep its airborne nuclear deterrent credible deep into the 2050s. To get there, it has exactly one aircraft cleared to test the missile: the B-52, a bomber whose last airframe rolled off the line in 1962. The newest...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
Morning in the Nevada high desert, sometime in the early 1980s. Heat is already shimmering off a runway that appears on no aeronautical chart worth trusting. A fighter pilot fresh from Nellis Air Force Base rolls out of a turn at 15,000 feet and sees something his...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
At a quarter to three in the afternoon on 18 December 1972, the concrete at Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, began to shake. The first Boeing B-52 Stratofortress released its brakes, eight engines trailing black smoke from water-injected takeoff power, and lumbered...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
At 07:55 on the morning of 18 April 1988, a voice crackled from the destroyer USS Merrill across the VHF band, first in Farsi, then in English: the occupants of the Sassan gas and oil separation platform had five minutes to leave. On the steel decks above the green...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
Commercial satellite imagery has revealed two hardened structures of an unfamiliar type at China’s most important missile test and training complex, and their geometry does not match anything previously catalogued there. The structures, at the People’s...
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