Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Photographers watching the B-2 Spirits taxi out for another Iran mission on March 25 noticed something odd. Rows of white rectangular patches — uniformly sized, black-bordered — running along the leading edges of both wings. On two separate aircraft. Nobody at the Air...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
In U.S. defence procurement, hitting your cost target is newsworthy. Beating it significantly is almost unheard of. Yet that is exactly what Air Force officials are claiming about the Collaborative Combat Aircraft programme — the effort to build autonomous drone...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
At Edwards Air Force Base in February 2026, an F-22 Raptor pilot did something no fighter pilot has done before in an official U.S. Air Force exercise: he commanded a drone wingman in combat-like conditions. From his cockpit, using a specialist interface on a tablet,...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Poland does not make fighter jets. It hasn’t produced a combat aircraft in decades. But right now, Warsaw is knocking on the door of one of the most exclusive clubs in aerospace — the Global Combat Air Programme — and asking to be let in. What Poland wants is...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
For nearly two weeks starting February 27, 2026, something almost unprecedented happened in the Taiwan Strait: nothing. Chinese warplanes stayed home. Taiwan’s Ministry of National Defense logged zero PLAAF activity on 11 out of 13 consecutive days — including a...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Six names. That is what the U.S. Air Force released on March 14, 2026, two days after a KC-135 Stratotanker crashed in Iraq. Maj. John Klinner. Capt. Ariana Savino. Tech. Sgt. Ashley Pruitt. Capt. Seth Koval. Capt. Curtis Angst. Tech. Sgt. Tyler Simmons. Investigators...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
They looked like canned food, Iranian villagers said. Small cylindrical objects scattered across the streets and fields of Kafari, a village on the southern outskirts of Shiraz. Within hours, Bellingcat had identified them: BLU-91/B scatterable anti-tank landmines,...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
The video is grainy, shot from the ground near Chabahar — a port city on Iran’s remote eastern coast. A U.S. Navy F/A-18 Super Hornet screams low overhead, its 20mm cannon blazing. Then a streak of smoke rises from below. The aircraft breaks hard left. The...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
On March 24, 2026, a video emerged from Ukraine that stopped aviation watchers in their tracks. A Soviet-era piston trainer, the Yak-52 — designed in the 1970s to teach student pilots basic aerobatics — had just downed a Russian Geran-2 kamikaze drone using a rifle...
Monde de l'aviation, Aviation militaire
Related QuestionsWhat is DARPA?DARPA is the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the research and development arm of the US Department of Defense. Founded in 1958 in response to the Soviet launch of Sputnik, it funds high-risk, high-reward technologies...
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