Aviazione militare, Notizia
It looks, at a glance, like a rich man’s toy: a sleek Bombardier business jet, the kind that ferries executives between capitals. Then you notice the lumps. A long blade running down its spine, blisters under the belly, a fairing crowning the tail — and suddenly the...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
A hypersonic missile usually costs about as much as a small mansion — tens of millions of dollars per shot, hand-built, hoarded like crown jewels. The U.S. Navy just placed an order for a hypersonic missile it hopes to buy for the price of a modest house: somewhere...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
It costs north of a hundred million dollars, it is the most sophisticated fighter the United States builds, and on the morning of 9 June it was sitting on a two-lane road in the Finnish woods, taking on fuel with pine trees a wingspan away.Two U.S. Marine Corps F-35B...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
In un gelido pomeriggio di maggio del 1942, su un lago ghiacciato vicino alla cittadina degli Urali di Bilimbay, un tozzo aeroplano verde, delle dimensioni di un addestratore da caccia, era accovacciato sulla neve. Non aveva elica. Nella coda si trovava una camera d'acciaio alimentata da acido nitrico fumante rosso e cherosene...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
La mattina del 17 marzo 1947, due piloti collaudatori fecero decollare un jet quadrimotore dal letto compatto del lago di Muroc, nell'alto deserto della California, e lo portarono in un cielo azzurro e limpido. L'aereo era goffo, con i fianchi squadrati e inconfondibilmente un prodotto dell'era dei pistoni...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
The blizzard came in off the Sea of Japan in sheets, and the flight deck of the USS Oriskany pitched in the grey November swell. It was 18 November 1952, and Lieutenant Royce Williams climbed into the cockpit of his Grumman F9F-5 Panther for his second mission of the...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
Just after midnight on 18 June 2026, residents of Moscow filmed something the Russian capital was not built to see: black smoke boiling over the Kapotnya district, where the Moscow Oil Refinery sits. It was the second strike on that single plant in a week. Ukrainian...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
The Alpha Scramble order reaches the quick reaction alert shelter at Šiauliai before the coffee has cooled. Two Romanian F-16s, fuelled and armed, are airborne over the grey Baltic within minutes, vectored toward an unidentified contact loitering off the...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
Here is something you do not see every day: Boeing builds a brand-new jet trainer, wins the U.S. Air Force contract, and then tells the U.S. Navy, no thanks. On June 12, the company confirmed it will not bid the T-7A Red Hawk for the Navy’s Undergraduate Jet...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
The buzz of a Shahed over Kharkiv has become one of the most dreaded sounds of this war. On the night of 8 June 2026, something answered it that no human was flying. A small fixed-wing interceptor lifted off, climbed to its waiting altitude, picked the incoming drone...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
Alla fine degli anni '60, un analista della CIA sedeva a fissare una sgranata fotografia satellitare del Mar Caspio e non riusciva a far quadrare i conti. La macchina nell'inquadratura era lunga quasi 100 metri, più di un Boeing 747, eppure sfiorava chiaramente l'acqua...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
Picture a flatbed trailer tilting slowly skyward in the California desert until it stands almost vertical, and clinging to it nose-up like a wasp on a windowpane, a stubby silver dart of an aircraft. There is no runway in sight. There is no landing gear worth the...
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