Aviazione militare, Notizia
Four fighters is not an air force. Four fighters, three tankers, two airlifters and three hundred people who can put all of that down on a foreign runway and have it flying again the next morning — that is an air force, compressed. On 8 September the French Air...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
Claims about strikes deep inside Russia are cheap. Verification is not. This week the satellites caught up with two of them, and the pictures are unusually specific about what Ukrainian drones actually hit. At Millerovo air base in Rostov Oblast, imagery published by...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
Two Iranian ballistic missiles came off the rail on Saturday morning and went for a United States aircraft carrier and a guided-missile destroyer. Both missed. Nobody aboard either ship was hurt. The answer arrived within hours, and it was not aimed at a radar site or...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
The display had been running for barely two minutes. Thousands of people were standing along the fence line at Tanagra Air Base, north of Athens, cameras up, waiting for the noise that only a Phantom makes. Then the jet came out of a turn, low, and did not climb. At...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
At about half past three on Friday afternoon, a Russian drone came down on a grey neoclassical block at 33 Volodymyrska Street in central Kyiv, directly across the road from St Sophia Cathedral. The building is the headquarters of the Security Service of Ukraine, the...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
Switzerland ordered its Patriot air defence system in 2022 and expected the first fire unit to arrive in 2026. It is now 4 September 2026, nothing has arrived, and the workaround that was supposed to rescue the timetable has just fallen apart. Armasuisse has confirmed...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
Nell'estate del 1986, il velivolo più grande del mondo si trovava su una rampa a Lakehurst, nel New Jersey, a circa un chilometro e duecento metri dal luogo in cui l'Hindenburg era bruciato. Era lungo 105 metri. Si trattava di un dirigibile della Marina con quattro elicotteri imbullonati al di sotto. Il 1° luglio sollevò un...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
On 24 November 1961, a machine that looked like somebody had bolted two helicopters to the wingtips of a transport aircraft lifted 16.4 tonnes to two and a half kilometres, set six world records in one flight, and landed thirty minutes later with its fuel warning...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
Every fighter jet has the same fatal dependency: a long strip of concrete. Destroy the runway and the aircraft is a very expensive ornament. In the early 1950s, with NATO planners assuming their handful of airfields in Germany would be atomised in the opening hours of...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
Qualcuno ha messo quattro cuscini di gommapiuma su una bocchetta di riscaldamento. È da lì che inizia. Non con un missile, non con un caccia sovietico, non con un cedimento strutturale catastrofico. Tre cuscini rivestiti di stoffa riposti su una bocchetta di aria calda sotto un sedile prima del decollo, e un quarto...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
At about seven thousand five hundred feet over the swamp forests of the Soviet Far East, a young woman clipped on a parachute, opened a hatch in the glazed nose of a bomber, and jumped out into freezing air because the alternative was to be crushed when the aircraft...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
Two Californian companies announced this week that they are going to build an autonomous aircraft together. They did not say what it is, who it is for, what it costs, or when it flies. Ordinarily that would be a press release to ignore. This one is worth a second...
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