Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
On 23 May 1943, a German fighter ace named Adolf Galland climbed into an aircraft with no propeller. He opened the throttles, felt a shove of thrust unlike anything a piston engine had ever given him, and afterwards reached for the only words that fit: it was, he...
Monde de l'aviation, Aviation militaire
Ask which is better, the MiG-29 or the Su-30, and you have already misunderstood the question. They were never meant to compete. They are the two halves of a single idea — the Soviet Union’s deliberate decision to build one small fighter and one big one, each...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
The most important document in the history of stealth aircraft was not written in California or at a secret desert airfield. It was written in Moscow, in Russian, by a Soviet physicist — and the Soviet Union let it go abroad because it decided the work was of no...
Monde de l'aviation, Aviation militaire
Lorsque l'An-225 Mriya a été détruit en 2022, le monde a perdu son plus gros avion. Mais l'Occident conserve lui aussi un géant des airs, qui transporte des chars, des hélicoptères et des satellites à travers le monde depuis avant les premiers pas sur la Lune, et qui est….
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Dans l'histoire des avions de chasse, on oublie presque toujours le finaliste. L'appareil qui perd la compétition se voit attribuer une plaque commémorative dans un musée, s'il a de la chance, tandis que le vainqueur obtient la production en série. Le Northrop YF-17 Cobra est la grande exception. Il a perdu – et pourtant….
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
On the afternoon of 26 October 2001, Boeing chairman Phil Condit stood with his Joint Strike Fighter chief, Frank Statkus, in front of a television carrying a live feed from the Pentagon. The largest defence contract in history — one stealth fighter for four armed...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Pakistan is on course to fly something no air force outside China has ever operated: a Chinese stealth fighter. The Pakistan Air Force has moved to acquire the Shenyang J-35 — reportedly up to 40 jets — in what would be the first export sale of a Chinese...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Dans le désert de l'extrême ouest de la Chine, un satellite de passage a surpris quelque chose que Pékin préférerait garder secret : deux énormes ailes volantes furtives, stationnées à découvert sur un aérodrome isolé – la plus grande d'entre elles étant presque aussi large qu'un bombardier américain B-2.
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
There is one aircraft the United States hopes it never has to use for its real job: the plane that would relay the order to launch nuclear missiles from America’s submerged submarines. Its replacement is now running late — and the government watchdog that warned about...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Ten minutes after lifting off from New York on Independence Day, climbing through 15,800 feet, the crew of a NetJets business jet saw something big and silver flash past their windscreen — close enough to report it. Then it was gone. They keyed the radio and told air...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Britain has put a number on its future: £298 billion. That is the size of the Defence Investment Plan unveiled at the end of June, the government’s four-year blueprint for rebuilding an armed forces bent on fighting “the wars of today and tomorrow.” It is a genuinely...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Un chiffre provenant d'un laboratoire chinois circule beaucoup, et il est frappant : 95 %. D'après une simulation informatique, c'est la fréquence à laquelle un Chengdu J-20 l'emporte sur un F-22 Raptor américain lors d'un combat aérien au nord de Taïwan. Mais à y regarder de plus près….
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