Aviazione militare, Notizia
I caccia che atterrano sulla pista della base aerea navale di Fallon, in Nevada, non appartengono alla Marina degli Stati Uniti. Sono gestiti da TacAir, una compagnia privata con sede a Reno. I piloti nelle cabine di pilotaggio sono civili, molti dei quali ex militari. Il loro compito è quello di volare in modo aggressivo contro...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
L'11 ottobre 2025, con il nominativo TABOR61, fece ritorno a Portsmouth, con il muso ornato da due piccole sagome di droni tipo Shahed accanto alla figura di Ares. L'A-10C della Guardia Nazionale Aerea dell'Idaho aveva appena terminato sei mesi di servizio nell'area di responsabilità del CENTCOM. Aveva...
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Photographers watching the B-2 Spirits taxi out for another Iran mission on March 25 noticed something odd. Rows of white rectangular patches — uniformly sized, black-bordered — running along the leading edges of both wings. On two separate aircraft. Nobody at the Air...
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In U.S. defence procurement, hitting your cost target is newsworthy. Beating it significantly is almost unheard of. Yet that is exactly what Air Force officials are claiming about the Collaborative Combat Aircraft programme — the effort to build autonomous drone...
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At Edwards Air Force Base in February 2026, an F-22 Raptor pilot did something no fighter pilot has done before in an official U.S. Air Force exercise: he commanded a drone wingman in combat-like conditions. From his cockpit, using a specialist interface on a tablet,...
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Poland does not make fighter jets. It hasn’t produced a combat aircraft in decades. But right now, Warsaw is knocking on the door of one of the most exclusive clubs in aerospace — the Global Combat Air Programme — and asking to be let in. What Poland wants is...
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For nearly two weeks starting February 27, 2026, something almost unprecedented happened in the Taiwan Strait: nothing. Chinese warplanes stayed home. Taiwan’s Ministry of National Defense logged zero PLAAF activity on 11 out of 13 consecutive days — including a...
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Six names. That is what the U.S. Air Force released on March 14, 2026, two days after a KC-135 Stratotanker crashed in Iraq. Maj. John Klinner. Capt. Ariana Savino. Tech. Sgt. Ashley Pruitt. Capt. Seth Koval. Capt. Curtis Angst. Tech. Sgt. Tyler Simmons. Investigators...
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They looked like canned food, Iranian villagers said. Small cylindrical objects scattered across the streets and fields of Kafari, a village on the southern outskirts of Shiraz. Within hours, Bellingcat had identified them: BLU-91/B scatterable anti-tank landmines,...
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The video is grainy, shot from the ground near Chabahar — a port city on Iran’s remote eastern coast. A U.S. Navy F/A-18 Super Hornet screams low overhead, its 20mm cannon blazing. Then a streak of smoke rises from below. The aircraft breaks hard left. The...
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On March 24, 2026, a video emerged from Ukraine that stopped aviation watchers in their tracks. A Soviet-era piston trainer, the Yak-52 — designed in the 1970s to teach student pilots basic aerobatics — had just downed a Russian Geran-2 kamikaze drone using a rifle...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
Why one was won in days and the other drags into year four Two ongoing conflicts. Two air forces attempting to dominate enemy skies. Two very different outcomes. The contrast between how Israel and the United States established air superiority over Iran — and how...
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