Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Quelque part dans le nord de la mer d'Arabie, un porte-avions nucléaire de 100 000 tonnes accomplit un exploit inédit pour un navire de guerre américain à l'ère moderne : il refuse tout simplement de s'arrêter. L'USS Abraham Lincoln a quitté San Diego avant Noël, a accosté une seule fois, et….
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Just after first light on July 10, ten F-22 Raptors dropped out of the English sky and rolled onto the runway at RAF Fairford under the callsign TREND. They looked like they had been to war. That is because they had. These were the 1st Fighter Wing’s jets from Joint...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Here is a riddle the Pentagon wrote by accident and never quite solved. In December 2005 the U.S. Air Force fielded the most fearsome air superiority fighter ever built — the Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor — expressly to retire the aging McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle. Two...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
L'aéronef qui inquiète le plus les commandants de bases aériennes américaines en 2026 n'est ni un chasseur furtif chinois, ni un bombardier russe. Il s'agit d'un quadricoptère à batterie qui coûte moins cher qu'un ordinateur portable d'occasion, et rien n'empêche un appareil hostile de survoler la clôture d'une base...
Monde de l'aviation, Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
The most expensive gift in the history of aviation sat gleaming on the ramp in Turkey — and the President of the United States walked straight past it. On 8 July, barely a day after American bombs fell on Iran, Donald Trump boarded the old Air Force One, the...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Before dawn on 1 August 1943, the desert around Benghazi coughed itself awake. One hundred and seventy-eight B-24 Liberators, engines scoured half to death by Libyan sand, staggered off the runways with 3,100 US gallons (11,700 litres) of fuel and full bomb bays. More...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
At 22:47 on 24 April 1980, a blacked-out MC-130 thumped down on a salt flat 200 miles (320 km) southeast of Tehran, and the most secret mission in America promptly met the public. Headlights. A Mercedes bus, forty-plus Iranian civilians aboard, rolling straight...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Last week we walked you through the sustainment data fight simmering between Boeing and the Air Force over the T-7A Red Hawk. Seven days later, the Government Accountability Office showed up with receipts. GAO’s Weapon Systems Annual Assessment, released July 2...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Six years ago the United States took Turkey’s F-35s away. The jets Ankara had already paid for went into storage in the Arizona desert, Turkish pilots were sent home from Luke Air Force Base, and roughly 100 stealth fighters on order evaporated. On Tuesday,...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Eighty targets. One night. That is CENTCOM’s answer to Iran shooting at oil tankers again. Overnight into Wednesday, US forces worked their way down a target list across southern Iran: air defense systems, command-and-control networks, coastal radar sites,...
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