Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
At the Irkutsk Aviation Plant on 25 June 2026, a two-seat jet that has spent two decades teaching student pilots how to fly lifted off on a roughly 50-minute sortie, climbed no higher than 2,000 metres (about 6,600 ft) and held its speed below 600 km/h (around 370...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
It is 21 October 1929, and 169 people are about to do something no group of human beings has ever done: leave the ground together, in a single aircraft. On the surface of Lake Constance sits the reason — a flying boat so vast that the men servicing its engines...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
For all its sophistication, the F-35 has carried an awkward secret: it could not sink a ship without compromising the one thing it is famous for. Any missile big enough to threaten a modern warship had to hang under the wings — and the moment it does, the...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Most of what an air force does in secret stays secret. Occasionally, though, the secret taxis past a photographer in broad daylight. That is what happened at RAF Akrotiri, where the British Ministry of Defence has just released official photographs of its newest drone...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Hunting a modern submarine is one of the most demanding tasks in military aviation. It means hours of patient, fuel-hungry orbits over empty ocean, listening for a contact that may never appear. It is precisely the kind of dull, exhausting, unglamorous work that...
Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes
On a September morning in 1962, the air traffic controllers at Van Nuys Airport made a phone call. They told the local police and fire departments to stand by. Out on the ramp sat the most absurd aeroplane anyone there had ever seen — a Boeing airliner whose...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
On a freezing afternoon in May 1942, on a frozen lake near the Ural town of Bilimbay, a stubby green aeroplane the size of a fighter trainer crouched on the snow. It carried no propeller. In its tail sat a steel chamber fed by red fuming nitric acid and kerosene...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
On the morning of 17 March 1947, two test pilots lifted a four-engined jet off the hard-packed lakebed at Muroc, in the California high desert, and into a clear blue sky. The aircraft was ungainly, slab-sided, and unmistakably a product of the piston age with...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
In the late 1960s, a CIA analyst sat staring at a grainy satellite photograph of the Caspian Sea and could not make the numbers work. The machine in the frame was nearly 100 metres long — longer than a Boeing 747 — yet it was clearly skimming the water,...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
South Korea just put the world on notice. In a slickly produced video released in February 2026, defence and rail group Hyundai Rotem revealed a concept for an air-launched hypersonic anti-ship cruise missile, built on the same scramjet technology that powers the...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
La Turquie vient d'annoncer au monde entier qu'elle construit un moteur d'avion de chasse d'une poussée équivalente à celui du F-35 – une affirmation à la fois impressionnante et quelque peu déconcertante. En résumé : les ambitions turques en matière de moteurs nationaux pour ses avions de chasse….
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Minuit 15, le 26 septembre 1983. Dans un bunker de commandement nommé Serpoukhov-15, au sud-ouest de Moscou, le lieutenant-colonel Stanislav Petrov prend place dans le fauteuil de commandement pour un service de nuit qui n'était pas prévu initialement. Devant lui :….
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