Monde de l'aviation, Nouvelles
Europe’s most ambitious fighter project spent years tearing itself apart. Now, from the wreckage, an unexpected suitor has stepped forward: India.On 7 August 2026, India’s Ministry of Defence confirmed to Parliament that New Delhi has begun efforts to join...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
A modern air-defense network is only as good as its eyes. Blind the radars and the missiles behind them are firing at ghosts. On 2 August 2026, Ukraine set out to do exactly that — not at the front line, but more than 270 kilometres behind it, deep inside...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
In 1964, France joined the nuclear club on its own terms. Refusing to depend on American or British weapons, it built a sleek supersonic delta to carry its own bomb — a two-seat, twin-engined thoroughbred that could dash toward Moscow at twice the speed of...
Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes
Everyone remembers the Airbus A380 as the great double-decker of the skies. Almost nobody remembers that France built one two generations earlier. In 1953, Air France put into service a broad-shouldered, four-engined airliner with two full passenger decks and a lift...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Long before a Russian Shahed reaches a Ukrainian city, it has to be stored, fuelled, launched and guided. On the night of August 6–7, Ukraine went after that entire chain at once, striking a drone launch site, an early-warning radar and the relay stations that...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
For half a century the Red Arrows have signed the British sky in red, white and blue, drawn by nine BAE Hawks flying wingtip to wingtip. This summer the signature was incomplete: worn-out Hawk T1s forced the team to fly seven jets for most of its 2026 displays rather...
Monde de l'aviation, Nouvelles
The dream was an electric jet that would whisk you between cities in near silence, lifting off vertically from a rooftop and cruising on stubby wings packed with tiny fans. Lilium, the Munich start-up that raised well over a billion dollars chasing that dream,...
Monde de l'aviation, Nouvelles
July was, by Airbus’s recent standards, a quiet month. The European planemaker handed over 67 aircraft to 39 customers — a step down from 89 in June and 81 in May. And yet, halfway-plus through 2026, Airbus is still comfortably in front.The running total...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
For months the story ran the wrong way. Poland was going to scrap its last MiG-29 fighters rather than hand them to Ukraine, a drones-for-jets deal apparently dead in the water. On 7 August 2026 the narrative flipped.Ukraine’s Ambassador to Poland, Vasyl Bodnar,...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
France has made its move. On 6 August 2026, Dassault Aviation handed New Delhi a formal techno-commercial proposal for 114 Rafale fighters — the long-awaited answer to India’s Multi-Role Fighter Aircraft (MRFA) tender, and one of the largest single fighter...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Shortly before midnight on Tuesday, an airport worker at Leipzig/Halle spotted something that should not have been there: a drone, sitting on the tarmac near the south runway, carrying an explosive device. It was resting a short distance from one of the largest...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Pendant quatre mois, la mission de surveillance de la frontière orientale de l'OTAN au-dessus de la mer Noire a été confiée à une poignée de chasseurs britanniques stationnés en Roumanie, prêts à décoller. La semaine dernière, ils ont passé le relais à l'Espagne et sont rentrés chez eux. Le 31 juillet 2026, des membres de la Royal Air Force basés en Roumanie ont été déployés.
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