Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Le 16 juin 2026, deux des spectacles les plus rares du combat aérien moderne se partageaient le ciel de l'Arkansas : un F-22 Raptor et un F-35 aux couleurs de l'armée de l'air finlandaise, volant aile contre aile. L'un était conçu pour dominer le ciel ; l'autre pour tout observer….
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Pendant des décennies, “ avion de chasse ” signifiait un pilote humain installé dans un cockpit. Le 17 juin 2026, l'US Air Force a discrètement mis fin à ce monopole. Elle a signé des contrats de production pour deux avions de combat à réaction sans cockpit, sans siège éjectable et sans pilote….
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Pendant plus de soixante ans, “ Air Force One ” a été synonyme d'une nuance spécifique de bleu pâle : le bleu œuf de merle créé pour John F. Kennedy en 1962. Le 19 juin, un autre 747 est apparu dans un hangar de la base aérienne d'Andrews, et le bleu avait disparu.
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
It sounds like paperwork: a pilot from one Air Force unit flew an aircraft alongside a pilot from another. Except the aircraft was the B-21 Raider — the most secret new warplane in the world — and one of the men at the controls was a frontline combat pilot, not a test...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
On 16 June a brand-new F-35A lifted off from Fort Worth, flew for about an hour, and came home behind a chase jet. Routine — except for two black letters painted on its tail: WW.Those letters make aircraft 24-5970 the first F-35 ever to wear the Wild Weasel tail code....
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
A hypersonic missile usually costs about as much as a small mansion — tens of millions of dollars per shot, hand-built, hoarded like crown jewels. The U.S. Navy just placed an order for a hypersonic missile it hopes to buy for the price of a modest house: somewhere...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
It costs north of a hundred million dollars, it is the most sophisticated fighter the United States builds, and on the morning of 9 June it was sitting on a two-lane road in the Finnish woods, taking on fuel with pine trees a wingspan away.Two U.S. Marine Corps F-35B...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Here is something you do not see every day: Boeing builds a brand-new jet trainer, wins the U.S. Air Force contract, and then tells the U.S. Navy, no thanks. On June 12, the company confirmed it will not bid the T-7A Red Hawk for the Navy’s Undergraduate Jet...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Just after noon on June 13, 2026, residents around Rimrock Lake heard the kind of sound that doesn’t belong over a quiet stretch of the Washington Cascades: a fighter jet, low and fast, then a series of sharp pops. Seconds later a U.S. Marine Corps F/A-18D Hornet...
Monde de l'aviation, Nouvelles
Qatar Airways is heading back to the City of Brotherly Love. The Gulf carrier confirmed in June 2026 that it will relaunch daily nonstop service between its Doha hub and Philadelphia on 1 August 2026 — reclaiming a US East Coast gateway it abandoned in 2023, and...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Singapore is about to do something only a handful of air forces on Earth can claim: fly a fifth-generation stealth fighter. After years of paperwork, options and parliamentary debate, the Republic of Singapore Air Force (RSAF) is on track to take delivery of its first...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
The U.S. Air Force has been trying to kill the A-10 Warthog for the better part of two decades. Budget after budget, the brass penciled in its funeral. And every time, something refused to let it go quietly. This time it was Iran. After weeks of Warthogs hammering...
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