Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
À plus de 300 kilomètres de la frontière de l'OTAN la plus proche, la Serbie construit un réseau de défense aérienne conçu par Pékin et non approuvé par aucune alliance occidentale. Le 28 juin, le président Aleksandar Vučić a confirmé ce que les analystes de la défense soupçonnaient depuis des mois : Belgrade est en train de….
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
It begins, as these things often do, not with a missile but with a laptop. Somewhere in the cavernous cargo hold of a French A400M Atlas — a hold built to swallow a helicopter or a 37-tonne armoured vehicle — an operator will soon sit at a console, watching sensor...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Walk the static line at ILA Berlin and you expect the usual choreography around a helicopter: a pilot strapping in, a crew chief signalling, the slow whine of an Arriel engine spooling up. This June, Airbus parked something stranger under the Brandenburg sun. The...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
At the Farnborough air show in 1953, the crowd hears it before they see it. Ten engines, building from a hum to a roar, and then the largest all-metal flying boat ever built slides overhead — a silver whale of an aircraft, a 219-foot wing, an ocean liner that...
Monde de l'aviation, Nouvelles
Step onto a Lufthansa A321 at Frankfurt this year and you might find yourself aboard a flying time machine. One aircraft in the fleet, registration D-AISZ, wears a design no airline has flown in earnest for half a century: a deep blue cheatline trimmed in yellow that...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Pull the throttle into afterburner and the jet that climbs away from the crowd is scarlet and white, the colours of the Danish flag wrapped around a screaming F-16. For two seasons, E-006 — the “Dannebrog” jet — has been the star of...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
On a grey June morning at the ILA Berlin air show, the most ambitious warplane Europe never built quietly ceased to exist. The Future Combat Air System — FCAS, or SCAF to the French — was meant to give France, Germany and Spain a sixth-generation fighter...
Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes
On the afternoon of 3 June 1973, an enormous crowd packs the edges of Le Bourget airfield north of Paris, faces turned up to watch the star of the air show: the Soviet Union’s supersonic airliner, the Tupolev Tu-144. Its pilot, Mikhail Kozlov, has reportedly...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
When you buy a front-line fighter, you also have to solve a quieter problem: how to train the pilots who will fly it. On 16 June 2026, Canada took a major step toward an answer — and the jet it chose is Italian. On the sidelines of the G7 summit in France,...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
High over the Mediterranean on 1 June 2026, a French Rafale pushed past the speed of sound and let a missile go. The moment of separation — missile leaving the rail of a jet travelling faster than sound — is one of the most violent things a weapon can be...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Over the flat plains of Çorlu in north-western Turkey this spring, a jet trainer and a tailless black drone flew in tight formation. Nothing unusual in that — except that no one was flying the drone. The pilot doing the commanding sat in the other aircraft entirely,...
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