Share this story A French-built fighter took on fuel from a Chinese tanker over Egypt this week — and in doing so quietly rewrote a small piece of the aerial map. It is, as far as anyone can tell, the first time a Chinese Y-20 tanker has been publicly documented...
Condividi questa storia Dieci anni fa la Marina degli Stati Uniti aveva un drone da combattimento stealth, in grado di operare da portaerei, che decollava dal ponte di una superportaerei, e poi lo ha abbandonato. Questa settimana la Marina ha ammesso silenziosamente di volere indietro quel velivolo. Il 31 agosto, Naval Air Systems...
Share this story Some stories are too strange to stay in the news cycle. On Friday, the strangest aviation story of the summer becomes a Netflix documentary. The streamer has fast-tracked a film about the afternoon in July when the President of the United States...
Condividi questa storia La guerra nello Stretto di Hormuz si è intensificata durante il fine settimana e, per una volta, gli scontri più significativi non si sono svolti sull'Iran. Si sono invece verificati sulla Giordania, dove le batterie Patriot americane hanno trascorso parte della mattinata di lunedì ad abbattere missili balistici iraniani diretti...
Share this story Germany spent Tuesday accusing Russia of trying to blow up a Ukrainian freighter on German soil. Russia spent the hours that followed escalating its denial, first through its embassy in Berlin, then through Vladimir Putin himself. The sequence...
Share this story Volodymyr Zelensky spent the first day of September addressing an audience that is not usually on a wartime president’s list: airline schedulers, flight-planning departments and, pointedly, the underwriters who insure them. In a video address on...
Condividi questa storia L'esercito americano ha appena trasformato il suo cavallo di battaglia, il taxi per il trasporto truppe, in una piattaforma di lancio per assassini autonomi. Un filmato diffuso da Anduril il 31 agosto mostra un elicottero H-60M Black Hawk che lancia un Altius-700 da un pilone esterno, con il drone che sfreccia via...
Share this story For weeks it was described in the careful language of an open investigation: a “suspicious object,” a “security incident,” a drone of unknown origin. On Tuesday, Germany dropped the hedging. Standing before reporters in Berlin,...
Share this story For more than sixty years, the sound of an astronaut heading to work has been the shriek of a Northrop T-38 Talon. Now NASA is starting to think about what comes next. The agency’s Johnson Space Center has opened market research for a modern jet...
Share this story The United States is quietly building more room for its heavy bombers in southern Spain. Under a new military-construction plan, the U.S. Air Force wants to expand the apron at Morón Air Base near Seville so it can park up to nine B-52...
Share this story The Shahed used to buzz. Now it screams. Russia has thrown its production weight behind a jet-powered version of the Iranian-designed attack drone, and the shift is turning a slow, propeller-driven nuisance into a genuinely hard target — one...
Share this story When Emmanuel Macron flew to Stockholm at the end of August, the headline deal was maritime: four French frigates for the Swedish navy, a multi-billion-euro vote of confidence in NATO’s newest member. But tucked alongside it was something that...
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