Aviazione militare, Notizia
Admiral Giuseppe Cavo Dragone gave the number and then did the arithmetic out loud, which is the part that lands. “Seven hundred takeoffs in two years,” NATO’s most senior military officer said at the Taranto Naval Base in southern Italy on Monday....
Aviazione militare, Notizia
Two Russian Su-35S fighters collided in the air over Russia’s Kursk region on Sunday. One pilot was killed. The other ejected and was injured. That is the entire confirmed account, and even it is not confirmed in any official sense. The report comes from...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
The sun went down over the Egyptian Mediterranean coast on Friday evening and left a row of American warplanes in silhouette: a C-130 Hercules, an A-10 Thunderbolt II, an F-16 Fighting Falcon and an F-15E Strike Eagle, parked nose-on to the desert. A few hundred...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
A US Air Force casualty assistance officer told the widow of a major killed in a KC-135 crash that certain combat-related benefits were not available to her family, because — in his words — the United States has not declared war. That is not how any of it...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
An Embraer 170 flew from Puget Sound to southern Alaska and back, four hours and twenty-three minutes, with GPS switched off the whole way. It navigated by reading the magnetic field of the rocks underneath it. This is being reported in several places as the US Air...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
Just after midnight on Pakistan Air Force Day, the PAF posted a patriotic music video called Fizaon K Pasbaan — Guardians of the Skies. Around twenty-eight seconds in, a six-wheeled air-defence vehicle with a large rectangular radar array rolls past. Pakistan...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
Denmark has quietly finished buying sixteen more F-35As, taking its fleet from twenty-seven to forty-three. Nobody announced it. It surfaced in a Pentagon accounting document. The Danish government and the F-35 Joint Program Office closed the deal by 21 April 2026....
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
The thing hanging under the F-15 was not a bomb. It was a two-stage rocket seventeen feet ten inches long, and inside its nose sat an object the size of a large coffee can that weighed thirty pounds, carried no explosive of any kind, and had no engine capable of...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
Switzerland voted for its new fighter jets in 2020 by 8,670 votes. It signed for 36 of them in 2022 at a price it believed was fixed. In August 2025 the Americans explained that the price had never been fixed. In March 2026 the Federal Council gave up on 36 and said...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
In 1969 the Chinese air force asked for a fighter small enough to be carried on the back of a truck. The idea was that in a war on Chinese soil, airfields would be bombed flat within days. What survived would be whatever could be hidden, dispersed and flown off short...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
In 1965 the Republic of China Air Force built two graves at the Bitan military cemetery outside Taipei. One was for Major Yeh Changti, the other for Major Chang Liyi. Both men had been shot down over communist China. Both had been declared dead. The Central Daily News...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
On 12 September 1958, the Soviet Union told the United States that it had found the wreck of an American aeroplane in Armenia, and that from the remains discovered there it might be assumed that six crewmen had perished. Seventeen men had been on board. A week later,...
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