Aviazione militare, Notizia
Seventy-five hours. More than three days. That is how long the K1000ULE unmanned aircraft can stay airborne on a single mission — circling, watching, and relaying intelligence without landing. On April 7, 2026, U.S. Air Forces Central Command awarded Kraus Hamdani...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
The United States Air Force just invited the tech industry to build artificial intelligence data centres on some of the most remote military installations in America. The offer: 4,700 acres of underutilised land across three bases in Alaska. The requirement: at least...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
A company that did not exist seven years ago just raised $350 million to build unmanned aircraft that fly faster than any operational military jet on Earth. Hermeus, a defence aviation startup founded in 2018, closed its Series C round on April 7, 2026, reaching a $1...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
The United States Air Force’s next air superiority fighter — the Boeing F-47, the centrepiece of the Next Generation Air Dominance programme — is slipping further behind schedule. Senior lawmakers and defence analysts now project that the aircraft will not reach...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
On April 10, 2026, the Swedish Armed Forces released photographs that tell a story in a single frame: two JAS 39 Gripen fighters flying overwatch above a Russian Kilo-class submarine as it transited the Kattegat — the narrow strait between Sweden and Denmark that...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
On March 3, 2026, an Iranian ballistic missile struck one of the most valuable single pieces of military hardware the United States has ever deployed overseas. The target was not a warship, not an airfield, and not a command centre. It was a radar — a three-faced,...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
Quick FactsNationalitySpanish 🇪🇸Aerial Victories40 (highest ace, Spanish Civil War)Aircraft FlownFiat CR.32, Bf 109B/CWarsSpanish Civil War (Nationalist)Born / Died25 Apr 1904 – 4 Apr 1939 (age 34)UnitGrupo 2-G-3 Chirri (2675595340) — via Wikimedia Commons Most of the...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
Two days before the most important flight in the history of aviation, Captain Chuck Yeager went horseback riding with his wife, Glennis, near their home at Muroc Army Air Field in the California desert. The horse threw him. He hit the ground hard and cracked two ribs...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
No supersonic fighter in history has been built in greater numbers. No jet has served in more air forces, fought in more wars, or lasted longer in frontline service. The Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 — NATO codename Fishbed — first flew in 1955, entered production in 1959,...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
The man who will shape the next generation of Air Force officers has 2,500 flight hours, 300 of them in combat, and has flown two of America’s most formidable fighters: the F-15C Eagle and the F-22 Raptor. Col. Brandon J. Tellez, a 2001 Air Force Academy graduate and...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
Thirty-nine aircraft. More than 13,000 sorties. Five weeks of sustained air combat over and around Iran. The War Zone has published a comprehensive, open-source tracking of every US aircraft confirmed lost or damaged during Operation Epic Fury — and the numbers tell a...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
Quick FactsNationalityAustro-Hungarian 🇦🇹Aerial Victories32 (highest k.u.k. Luftfahrtruppen ace)Aircraft FlownAlbatros D.III, Hansa-BrandenburgWarsWorld War IBorn / Died5 Feb 1895 – 1 Aug 1981 (age 86)UnitFlik 6, Flik 55J Julius Arigi — via Wikimedia Commons Every war...
Commenti recenti