Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
It was a bright, ordinary afternoon in Florida. At about two o’clock on 5 December 1945, five Grumman Avenger torpedo bombers rumbled off the runway at Naval Air Station Fort Lauderdale on a routine navigation exercise. Fourteen men, a clear sky, a familiar patch of...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
At 75,000 feet over the Baltic Sea, the world is dark blue above and curved below, and the only sound in the cockpit is the hiss of the pressure suit. On the morning of 29 June 1987, that calm ended with a bang.The right engine of Lt. Col. Duane Noll’s SR-71 Blackbird...
Monde de l'aviation, Nouvelles
For as long as anyone could remember, getting from Montreal to Dakar meant flying the wrong way first. North-east to Paris or Brussels, a layover, then back south to Senegal — a journey of twelve hours or more to reach a city that sits almost due east across the...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
The order came not from a battlefield but from a committee room. On a Sunday in early May 2026, a panel of senior Israeli ministers signed off on a plan that had been gathering urgency for the better part of a year: buy two more squadrons of American fighters, and buy...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Two of the world’s biggest emerging powers are quietly negotiating one of the most unusual arms deals of the decade — and almost no Western capital is in the room. India and Brazil are working toward a barter: India would hand Brazil its homegrown Tejas Mk1A fighters...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
En fin d'après-midi, le samedi 27 octobre 1962, les hommes du sous-marin soviétique B-59 étaient à bout de souffle. Le sous-marin était en mer depuis près de quatre semaines, caché de la marine américaine dans les eaux chaudes au nord de Cuba, et ses batteries étaient presque à plat.
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