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...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Storia e leggende
Share this story By almost every technical measure, the Lockheed L-1011 TriStar was the finest airliner of its generation. It could fly an approach and land itself in thick fog when rivals still needed a pilot’s hands. Its ride was smoother, its systems...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
Share this story In the summer of 1940, outnumbered RAF fighter pilots kept turning up in exactly the right place to meet the Luftwaffe, again and again. To the Germans it looked like uncanny luck. It was nothing of the sort. Along the coast of Britain stood a line of...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
Share this story Fresh, far clearer imagery of China’s new turboprop tactical airlifter surfaced around 21 August 2026, reported first by The War Zone and picked up across the defence press. The photographs, taken at an unidentified test airfield, give the best...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
Share this story Open-source analysts say Ukrainian forces struck the Russian airbase at Akhtubinsk in the Astrakhan region in the early hours of 20 August 2026, damaging a Su-34 fighter-bomber. The claim rests on satellite imagery circulated by OSINT channels rather...
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