Share this story The runway at RAF Lyneham on the morning of 22 July 1966 held one of the least likely aeroplanes in Britain: a Lightning interceptor with no canopy, a disarmed ejection seat, its undercarriage pinned down, and a man in the cockpit who was wearing no...
Condividi questa storia I kuwaitiani si sono svegliati prima dell'alba di mercoledì con il suono che il loro governo aveva già preannunciato: il decollo dei missili intercettori della difesa aerea. Per la seconda volta in tre giorni, l'Iran aveva lanciato missili e droni contro basi americane sul suolo kuwaitiano. Il...
Share this story Ukraine spent three years learning how to shoot down Shaheds cheaply. Machine guns on pickup trucks. Electronic warfare. Then, cleverest of all, small propeller-driven interceptor drones that cost a few thousand dollars and rammed a target worth far...
Condividi questa storia Una delle navi da guerra più potenti della Terra è appena arrivata a fatica in un porto thailandese, con l'aspetto di un relitto ritrovato in una discarica. Dopo 286 giorni in mare, la portaerei a propulsione nucleare USS Abraham Lincoln è attraccata a Laem Chabang, vicino a Pattaya, ricoperta di ruggine...
Share this story The Boeing B-52 Stratofortress has been in service for seventy years and is on course to fly for a hundred. It has outlasted the Soviet Union, the propeller, and most of the engineers who designed it. And the design that made all of that possible...
Condividi questa storia La Corea del Sud ha appena terminato la costruzione del suo primo caccia di produzione nazionale e sta già pensando al prossimo, e questa volta vuole saltare una generazione. Seoul ha formalmente avviato lo studio di fattibilità per un caccia stealth di sesta generazione...
Share this story The Short Stirling was the first of the RAF’s great four-engine heavy bombers — into service before the Halifax, before the Lancaster, the aircraft that opened Britain’s strategic bombing war. It was huge, handsome and, in the end,...
Share this story When Soviet-built MiG-15s came screaming over Korea in late 1950 with their swept wings and steep climb, the United States Navy had a problem. Its best carrier jet, the Grumman F9F Panther, was a fine, sturdy machine — but its straight wing...
Condividi questa storia All'inizio degli anni '50 gli Stati Uniti trascorrevano le notti insonni preoccupati per i bombardieri sovietici che si infiltravano nell'Artico nell'oscurità. L'aereo che inviarono per intercettarli fu il Lockheed F-94 Starfire, il primo caccia a reazione americano con un...
Share this story In 1935 a newspaper baron dared British industry to build the fastest civil aircraft in Europe. The result was so quick that when the Royal Air Force turned it into a bomber, it could outrun its own fighters. Two years later that same design flew the...
Share this story The Blackburn Skua was slow, awkward and asked to do two jobs it could not both do well. It has been mocked ever since as one of the Fleet Air Arm’s worst fighters. And yet in the first months of the Second World War this unloved machine scored...
Share this story Nobody ever called the Fairey Barracuda beautiful. With its high shoulder-mounted wing, spindly legs and a clutter of struts and flaps hanging beneath it, the Fleet Air Arm’s torpedo and dive bomber looked like it had been assembled from spare...
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