Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
For a week in the summer of 1976, more than a hundred people sat on the floor of a disused airport terminal in the heart of Africa, four thousand kilometres from home, and waited to find out whether they would be murdered. They had been separated — Israelis and Jews...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
At a quarter to eight on the morning of 5 June 1967, Egyptian air-defence officers were changing shifts, the dawn patrol had landed, and hundreds of Soviet-built fighters sat parked in neat rows across eighteen airfields. Within roughly three hours, most of them were...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Le problème était d'ordre géométrique. En 1943, un barrage allemand était un mur de maçonnerie de plus de trente mètres d'épaisseur à sa base, protégé par des filets anti-torpilles dans l'eau et des canons antiaériens sur sa crête. Une bombe larguée en altitude manquerait sa cible ; une torpille s'accrocherait aux filets ; une mine….
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
A fighter is only as dangerous as the distance it can cross. On paper, America’s new F-47 is the longest-legged fighter the United States has ever built — and over the one map that matters most, the Western Pacific, it still comes up short. China’s enormous new J-36...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
L'aéronef qui inquiète le plus les commandants de bases aériennes américaines en 2026 n'est ni un chasseur furtif chinois, ni un bombardier russe. Il s'agit d'un quadricoptère à batterie qui coûte moins cher qu'un ordinateur portable d'occasion, et rien n'empêche un appareil hostile de survoler la clôture d'une base...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
For three-quarters of a century, European security rested on a single quiet assumption: if the sky over the continent ever caught fire, American airpower would arrive to put it out. At this month’s NATO summit, the alliance’s top commander made clear that the...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Les États-Unis prévoient de s'appuyer sur l'AGM-181 pour maintenir la crédibilité de leur dissuasion nucléaire aéroportée jusque dans les années 2050. Pour ce faire, un seul appareil est autorisé à tester ce missile : le B-52, un bombardier dont le dernier exemplaire est sorti des chaînes de production en 1962. Le plus récent….
Monde de l'aviation, Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
The most expensive gift in the history of aviation sat gleaming on the ramp in Turkey — and the President of the United States walked straight past it. On 8 July, barely a day after American bombs fell on Iran, Donald Trump boarded the old Air Force One, the...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Before dawn on 1 August 1943, the desert around Benghazi coughed itself awake. One hundred and seventy-eight B-24 Liberators, engines scoured half to death by Libyan sand, staggered off the runways with 3,100 US gallons (11,700 litres) of fuel and full bomb bays. More...
Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Fréjus, on the Côte d’Azur, 23 September 1913, 5:47 in the morning. The sea is still grey, the air smells of salt and the burnt castor oil that every rotary engine of the era coughs over its pilot. A small, dark-eyed man settles into a Morane-Saulnier G — a...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Morning in the Nevada high desert, sometime in the early 1980s. Heat is already shimmering off a runway that appears on no aeronautical chart worth trusting. A fighter pilot fresh from Nellis Air Force Base rolls out of a turn at 15,000 feet and sees something his...
Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Gate 15 at John F. Kennedy International Airport, a few minutes past midnight on the last day of August 1983. A Boeing 747 sits in the floodlights, doors open, while 246 passengers file aboard: businessmen bound for Taipei and Hong Kong, honeymooners, grandparents,...
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