Mondo dell'aviazione, Aviazione militare
Share this story On 21 June 2013, a yacht called Eolus struck a sperm whale roughly 1,200 kilometres south-east of Miyagi prefecture and began to sink. Two men took to a life raft: a Japanese newscaster and a blind sailor attempting to cross the Pacific.A US-2...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
Share this story The United States is quietly building more room for its heavy bombers in southern Spain. Under a new military-construction plan, the U.S. Air Force wants to expand the apron at Morón Air Base near Seville so it can park up to nine B-52...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
Share this story The Shahed used to buzz. Now it screams. Russia has thrown its production weight behind a jet-powered version of the Iranian-designed attack drone, and the shift is turning a slow, propeller-driven nuisance into a genuinely hard target — one...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
Share this story When Emmanuel Macron flew to Stockholm at the end of August, the headline deal was maritime: four French frigates for the Swedish navy, a multi-billion-euro vote of confidence in NATO’s newest member. But tucked alongside it was something that...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
Share this story Before dawn on Tuesday, sirens and phone alerts woke residents across eight regions of Estonia. A drone had crossed the country’s southeastern frontier, and a second was tracking toward the border city of Narva. On the runway at Ämari Air...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
Share this story It started with one Airman, one routine inspection, and one smear of residue that should not have been there. Weeks later, the U.S. Air Force has yanked an entire family of test equipment out of its nuclear missile force — because the gear that...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
Share this story Buried in Japan’s record ¥8.89 trillion (about $56 billion) defence budget request for fiscal 2027 is a single phrase that quietly redraws the country’s air-combat ambitions. The Ministry of Defense now describes the ASM-3 —...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Aviazione militare
A Ukrainian fiber-optic guided FPV drone. These wire-guided weapons are immune to electronic jamming and can strike targets over 20 kilometres away. (Wikimedia Commons) In February 2025, Ukraine became the first nation in history to establish a dedicated military...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
Share this story For months it was a rumour with photographs attached: Uzbekistan, a country whose air force has flown Soviet and Russian hardware since the day it existed, had quietly bought Chinese fighters. Then Uzbek state television settled it. In a long...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
Share this story Before noon on 31 August 2026, about 30 kilometres north of the little Polish seaside town of Łeba, Polish fighters slid into position alongside a four-engined Russian turboprop and escorted it along the coast. The aircraft was an Ilyushin Il-20...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
Share this story On the morning of 30 August 2026, four Algerian Su-30MKA fighters and an Il-78 tanker came down the approach into Niamey. A day earlier, gunfire and explosions had erupted across the Nigerien capital — around the presidency and around Air Base...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
Share this story Every helicopter engineer has the same dream: a machine that lifts straight up off a rooftop like a helicopter, then flies as fast as an aeroplane. The trouble is the rotor. It gives you vertical flight, but it also limits your speed — so what...
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