Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
A modest airbase in southeastern Bulgaria has become the newest point of friction between Tehran and the West — and the cause is not a bomber or a stealth fighter, but a fleet of ageing flying petrol stations.In late July 2026, Bulgaria’s parliament approved the...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
A month ago, the U.S. Air Force cleared its first two “fighter drones” for production. This week, the factories actually started building them — and one of them dropped a letter from its name.On 27 July 2026, the first Ohio-built Fury rolled off...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
On 29 July 2026, the Ukrainian Air Force reported the loss of an F-16 during a combat mission to intercept Russian air targets. The pilot ejected and survived.According to the Air Force, controllers lost contact with the aircraft while it was engaged over one section...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
At about 2:30 in the afternoon on 30 July 2026, sensors along South Korea’s border with the North picked up something they couldn’t identify: an unmanned aircraft, near a frontline outpost, not squawking anything friendly. In the most heavily militarised...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
On 29 July 2026, at Korea Aerospace Industries’ plant in Sacheon, South Korea did something only a handful of nations have ever managed: it declared its own supersonic fighter finished. The KF-21 Boramae — “young hawk” — is officially through...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Over the pine forests of the Gironde, a shape far too large to be a water bomber banks low, opens its rear cargo ramp, and lets a red cascade of retardant fall across the treetops. This is no yellow Canadair. It is an Airbus A400M Atlas, the biggest tactical airlifter...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
For the first year of the Pacific war, the Mitsubishi A6M Zero had a kind of spell over Allied pilots. It turned tighter, climbed better and reached farther than anything the US Navy could put up against it, and the men flying the stubby F4F Wildcat learned to survive...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
On 29 July 2026, Japan launched fighter jets over the East China Sea after picking up a suspected airspace violation. Then the Ministry of Defense did what it usually does with these events: said almost nothing.No aircraft type was named. No confirmation of whether...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
For sixty years, the sight of a C-2A Greyhound turning onto final told a carrier crew everything they needed to know: the mail was here, the spare part was here, the Sailor going home was here. On 28 July 2026, that homely twin-turboprop made the sound one last time...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Un avion de ligne est piloté par son système hydraulique. Ce dernier actionne les ailerons, les gouvernes de profondeur, la gouverne de direction – toutes les surfaces de contrôle manipulées par les pilotes. Sans ce système, l'appareil deviendrait, en théorie, un projectile incontrôlable. Le 22 novembre 2003, un équipage de DHL Cargo….
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Grumman entreprit de construire le meilleur chasseur embarqué de la Seconde Guerre mondiale : un monstre bimoteur capable de distancer et de surpasser en puissance de feu n’importe quel appareil dans les airs, et d’emporter l’équivalent d’un bombardier en armement depuis un pont d’envol. Pari réussi. Le Tigercat était d’une rapidité fulgurante, d’une férocité….
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Quelque part sous les eaux peu profondes et vaseuses de la baie de Wassaw, au large des côtes de Géorgie, repose une bombe à hydrogène de 3 447 kg. L'armée de l'air américaine l'y a larguée en 1958, l'a cherchée pendant dix semaines, puis a abandonné, et l'a laissée là depuis. C'est l'une des rares bombes à hydrogène américaines...
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