Il Pentagono vuole 500 droni in un unico sciame. Non un giorno. Non in teoria. Al momento, la DARPA sta raccogliendo proposte per sistemi di droni autonomi containerizzati in grado di lanciare, recuperare e coordinare costellazioni di fino a 500 velivoli senza pilota da...
Share this story On 27 June 2025, Ukrainian Special Operations Forces struck Marinovka airbase in Russia’s Volgograd region. When the smoke cleared, four Sukhoi Su-34 Fullback fighter-bombers were destroyed on the ground. Four aircraft, gone in a single strike —...
Yesterday, we reported on a remarkable letter from the nation’s Adjutants General to Congress, demanding the Air Force buy at least 72 — and ideally 100 — new fighters per year to prevent the force from shrinking below the threshold needed to fight a major war....
Non esiste al mondo un addestratore a reazione con un'ombra più lunga dell'Aero L-39 Albatros. Più di 3.000 esemplari costruiti. Utilizzato da oltre 30 forze aeree in cinque continenti. La spina dorsale dell'addestramento dei piloti del Patto di Varsavia per due decenni, e ancora oggi, nel 2026, l'aereo che introduce...
Share this story Before dawn on 14 June, two Royal Air Force Chinook helicopters thundered low over the English Channel toward a 244-metre oil tanker flying the flag of Cameroon. Hanging beneath them, silhouetted against the first grey light, were Royal Marines from...
Share this story For more than six decades, every fighter jet in the Algerian Air Force has come from one country: Russia. MiG-21s, MiG-25s, Su-30MKAs, MiG-29s — the entire combat fleet reads like a catalogue of Soviet and Russian design bureaux. That era is about to...
Share this story The West gave Ukraine its best single-engine fighter. Then Ukraine’s pilots threw away the instruction manual. Since the first F-16 Fighting Falcons arrived in Ukrainian skies in August 2024, the pilots who fly them have compiled a combat record...
When twin earthquakes ripped through northern Venezuela on 24 June — a magnitude 7.2 foreshock followed 39 seconds later by a catastrophic magnitude 7.5 mainshock — the country’s fragile infrastructure collapsed in minutes. Buildings pancaked across Caracas....
Share this story Edwards Air Force Base is flying again. The question everyone at the desert test centre is still asking is why it had to stop. On 15 June, B-52H tail number 60-0061 — call sign Torch 11 — crashed moments after takeoff from Edwards, killing all eight...
Domenica, il Corpo delle Guardie Rivoluzionarie Islamiche ha colpito installazioni militari americane in tutto il Golfo Persico, lanciando missili balistici e droni armati contro basi in Kuwait e Bahrein, in quella che Teheran ha definito una risposta diretta agli attacchi statunitensi contro obiettivi iraniani nelle vicinanze...
Share this story Fifteen warplanes. Two nuclear powers. One very pointed message. On 27 June, Russia and China flew their largest joint strategic bomber patrol to date — a six-hour formation sweep through the Sea of Japan, East China Sea, and into the western Pacific....
L'aeronautica militare degli Stati Uniti ha silenziosamente abbandonato uno dei requisiti per armamenti più ambiziosi degli ultimi tempi: un nuovo missile aria-aria in grado di distruggere bersagli a una distanza minima di 1.000 miglia nautiche, ovvero circa 1.150 miglia terrestri. Si tratta di circa dieci...
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