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...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
The video is short and, if you have any imagination at all, deeply unpleasant. A Mi-8 descends towards a public highway on Sakhalin Island, main rotor blades sweeping low over a truck that is still driving along the road. Then the helicopter goes off the road and into...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
The Royal Air Force flies several aircraft that it cannot refuel. This is not a secret, and it is not new, but it is faintly absurd, and it has finally produced an answer. In a written answer on 2 September, Minister of State for Defence Readiness and Industry Luke...
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Russia is taking its export fighter to the Egyptian coast next week, and it is bringing something it has never shown anyone. Rostec, the Russian state defence conglomerate, says the Su-57E will fly at the El Alamein International Airshow from 8 to 10 September...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
Hypersonic weapons have a problem that has nothing to do with physics. They work. They are also so expensive that nobody can afford to fire very many of them, which in a serious war is the same thing as not having them. On 1 September the Air Force Research Laboratory...
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On 1 September, a formation of very old, very large aeroplanes settled onto a runway in the Northern Territory of Australia, 4,000 kilometres from the nearest American base and comfortably beyond the reach of most of China’s missile force. That was the point. The...
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For years the standard defence of the F-35 went like this: yes, the development was a nightmare, but the unit price kept falling, and eventually a stealth fighter would cost about what a fourth-generation jet costs. That argument has now run out of road. The F-35...
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Share this story Buying more of a good fighter sounds like an easy win. The Pentagon has just published the fine print, and it is a reminder that in defence procurement, doubling an order is never simply a matter of writing a bigger cheque. Earlier this year the U.S....
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Share this story At about seven in the morning on 2 September, a grey four-engined Hercules bristling with antennas rolled down the runway at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Arizona and climbed into the desert haze. Its callsign was VOLT01. Six hours later it came...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
Condividi questa storia Un breve video pubblicato su Instagram questa settimana mostra qualcosa che sarebbe stato impensabile dieci anni fa: un aereo da combattimento a reazione, senza cabina di pilotaggio, senza pilota, che atterra da solo su una pista nel deserto. L'aereo è l'YFQ-44A Fury di Anduril. Il...
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Condividi questa storia Frank Kendall, che ha ricoperto la carica di Segretario dell'Aeronautica degli Stati Uniti da luglio 2021 a gennaio 2025, ha trascorso tre giorni all'inizio di settembre 2026 a sostenere la stessa tesi in tre diverse occasioni: un articolo di opinione sul New York Times il 1° settembre, un'intervista su...
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