Aviazione militare, Notizia
La mattina del 31 marzo, due velivoli di cui quasi nessuno al di fuori della comunità della guerra elettronica aveva mai sentito parlare sono atterrati alla base RAF di Mildenhall, in Inghilterra. Erano partiti il giorno prima dalla base aerea di Davis-Monthan, in Arizona, avevano fatto rifornimento a McGuire, nel New Jersey, e...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
Two T-50i Golden Eagles arrived at Iswahjudi Air Base in East Java in early March, flown in pieces inside a Boeing 747 freighter and reassembled on the ground. Fuselage, wings, vertical tail, engine — each component traveled separately across more than 700 kilometers...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
Somewhere in northern Germany on March 30, a small drone the size of a dinner table locked onto a kamikaze UAV streaking toward its target. Without any human input, it classified the threat, selected a weapon, and fired. The missile — weighing less than two kilograms...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
The T-45 Goshawk has been teaching Navy and Marine Corps pilots how to fly jets since 1991. Now, after more than three decades of carrier touch-and-goes, hard landings, and thousands of freshly winged aviators, the little British-designed trainer is getting a...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
What does it take to become a flying ace — the most feared, most celebrated kind of warrior the modern age has ever produced? Starting tomorrow, April 1st, MiGFlug is publishing a new daily series: 34 profiles of the greatest fighter aces in history, one every day...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
At the Future Investment Priority Summit in Miami on March 28, Donald Trump made it official: “For the very first time, we agreed to sell Saudi Arabia perhaps the most capable fighter jet ever built, the F-35.” With that sentence, the stealth monopoly in...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
For years it existed only in grainy satellite photos and rumors on Chinese military forums. Then, in September 2025, China rolled it out at a Victory Day parade in Beijing. Now, for the first time, Japan has intercepted one in the wild — and the implications stretch...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
A nighttime photograph released by the Israeli Air Force on March 29 shows a pair of F-16I Sufas taxiing for another strike mission against Iran. The jets are loaded heavy. But the weapons hanging under their wings aren’t the precision-guided JDAMs or Rampage...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
A standard A-10 gun run lasts two to three seconds. Finger on the trigger, a controlled burst of 30mm depleted uranium rounds, then pull off target. That’s what pilots train for. That’s what the manual says. So when video surfaced from Iraq showing...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
Flight trackers lit up over the weekend as a formation of A-10C Thunderbolt IIs — callsign TABOR 71 — crossed the Atlantic toward RAF Lakenheath in England. Behind them, three KC-135 Stratotankers from RAF Mildenhall held station, feeding fuel to the tank-killers on...
Storia e leggende, All'interno di MiGFlug, Aviazione militare
Step inside a MiG-21 cockpit and the first thing that hits you isn’t the claustrophobic canopy or the wall of analog dials. It’s the color. Every surface — the instrument panel frame, the side consoles, the canopy rails — is painted in a striking shade of...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
At 12:50 PM on March 29, four F-35A Lightning II stealth fighters touched down at Misawa Air Base in Aomori Prefecture, northeastern Japan. They taxied to the ramp, engines winding down, canopies opening in the cold northern air. It looked routine. It was anything...
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