Aviazione militare, Notizia
The General Electric J85 first ran on a test stand in 1956. Eisenhower was president. The Soviets had not yet launched Sputnik. Seventy years later, the same engine — virtually unchanged in its core architecture — is being kept alive by more than $178 million in...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
Most aviation news arrives with a roar. This one arrives with a quiet announcement that, somewhere over the cold North Atlantic, a U.S. Navy P-8A Poseidon is now flying in a configuration that can probably hear a Russian submarine before the submarine knows it is...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Notizia
Il 2 aprile 2026, il pilota collaudatore Paul Stone si è allacciato le cinture nella cabina di pilotaggio di un velivolo che è decollato come un elicottero, si è inclinato in avanti ed è volato via come un aereo. Si trovava all'aeroporto di Cotswold, nel Gloucestershire, in Inghilterra. Il velivolo era il modello in scala reale della Vertical Aerospace...
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, Notizia
There is only one left that can fly. Out of the hundreds of PB4Y-2 Privateers that the US Navy operated across the Pacific during the final years of World War II, a single airworthy example survives — based in Casa Grande, Arizona, maintained by a small crew of...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Notizia
Il prezzo del carburante Jet-A negli Stati Uniti si è attestato in media a 8,63 TP4T al gallone nell'aprile 2026. Si tratta di 1,77 TP4T in più rispetto a marzo. È 1,03 TP4T in più rispetto a un anno fa. Ed è più del doppio di quanto costava prima che l'Iran chiudesse lo Stretto di Hormuz alla fine di febbraio. Per chiunque...
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