Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
On the Fourth of July 1989, two American F-15 pilots on alert in the Netherlands were scrambled to intercept an intruder crossing into NATO airspace. What they found was a real Soviet fighter, deep over Western Europe — with no one flying it.It became one of the...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
By 1944 the Republic P-47 Thunderbolt was already one of the biggest, heaviest single-engine fighters of the war — a seven-ton brute that pilots adored. Then Republic asked a wild question: what if we made it even bigger, and bolted on the most powerful piston...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
In the early 1950s, the U.S. Navy asked American industry a genuinely strange question: could a fighter take off straight up, standing on its tail, from a platform on the back of a warship? Lockheed’s answer was a stubby little aircraft that pointed its nose at...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
Long before the Predator, before the Reaper, before a single Hellfire was ever fired from an unmanned aircraft, a little jet-powered drone with a bug’s name was already flying spy missions over the most heavily defended airspace on Earth. It was called the Ryan...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
In the first days of October 1973, Israel was losing. Egyptian and Syrian armies had struck on Yom Kippur, and Israeli tanks and aircraft were being destroyed faster than the country could replace them. Then, out of the western sky, came the sound of salvation: the...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
It is white, it is enormous, and it is faster than almost anything with a bomb bay. Russian crews call the Tupolev Tu-160 the “White Swan” for its pale anti-flash paint and its improbably graceful lines. The rest of the world knows it by its NATO name:...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
Somewhere over the Nevada desert on a July morning in 1957, five American officers stood in the open, looked straight up, and waited for a nuclear weapon to go off directly above their heads. There was no bunker. There was no lead shielding. There was a hand-lettered...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
Uno squadrone di caccia dei Marines che ha mandato in pensione il suo ultimo Hornet nel 2023 sta per tornare, e questa volta per il ponte di volo delle portaerei. Il 31 luglio 2026, lo squadrone di caccia d'attacco dei Marines 115, i "Silver Eagles", ha fatto volare per la prima volta l'F-35C Lightning II...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
Da qualche parte sotto il granito della Catena Montuosa Centrale di Taiwan, uno squadrone di aerei da combattimento è entrato in una grotta e le porte blindate si sono chiuse alle loro spalle. Non era un set cinematografico. Era l'attrazione principale di questa settimana per Han Kuang 42, la più grande compagnia aerea dell'isola...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
È il genere di cosa che un pilota della domenica non si aspetta mai di vedere nel parabrezza: il muso grigio di un F-16 Fighting Falcon che si inserisce in formazione a poche aperture alari di distanza, con le ali cariche di missili. Domenica, almeno un pilota di aviazione generale sopra il New Jersey ha avuto...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
Three de Havilland DH.108 Swallows were ever built. Each one, in turn, killed the man flying it. That is not a curse or a legend — it is simply the record of one of the most beautiful and lethal experimental aircraft Britain ever put into the air. The Swallow...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
Shooting down a ballistic missile with a laser sounds like science fiction. For a brief period around 2010, it was an American aircraft parked on a runway in California. The Boeing YAL-1 was a 747 with a megawatt-class laser built into its fuselage and a swivelling...
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