Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Picture the view from the cockpit. The sea is a grey blur a hundred feet below, ripping past at well over 500 knots. The horizon barely moves; the world is a tunnel of speed. Most aircraft, this low and this fast, would be a snarling, twitchy handful, fighting their...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
At the Farnborough air show in 1953, the crowd hears it before they see it. Ten engines, building from a hum to a roar, and then the largest all-metal flying boat ever built slides overhead — a silver whale of an aircraft, a 219-foot wing, an ocean liner that...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
It is 21 October 1929, and 169 people are about to do something no group of human beings has ever done: leave the ground together, in a single aircraft. On the surface of Lake Constance sits the reason — a flying boat so vast that the men servicing its engines...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
On the morning of 2 September 1958, a four-engined transport drones eastward through the clear sky near the Turkish-Soviet border. To anyone who glanced up, it is just a C-130 Hercules — an unglamorous cargo hauler. It is not. Tail number 60528 is packed with...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
It is the morning of 7 January 1991, and Dick Cheney is about to do something a Defense Secretary almost never does. Standing at the Pentagon podium, the war in the Persian Gulf only days away, he announces that he is killing one of the Navy’s most important...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Il existe 21 B-2 Spirit dans le monde, et la plupart d'entre eux sont stationnés dans des hangars climatisés du Missouri. Alors, quand l'une de ces ailes volantes, parmi les $2 milliards d'exemplaires, apparaît à l'autre bout du globe, ce n'est jamais un hasard. C'est un message. Ce mois-ci….
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
For all its sophistication, the F-35 has carried an awkward secret: it could not sink a ship without compromising the one thing it is famous for. Any missile big enough to threaten a modern warship had to hang under the wings — and the moment it does, the...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Samedi, quelque part au-dessus de l'ouest du Maryland, un pilote privé effectuait un vol normal lorsqu'un avion de chasse est apparu à l'extrémité de son aile. Vers 12 h 20 le 20 juin 2026, un petit avion d'aviation générale a pénétré dans une zone d'interdiction temporaire de vol...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Most of what an air force does in secret stays secret. Occasionally, though, the secret taxis past a photographer in broad daylight. That is what happened at RAF Akrotiri, where the British Ministry of Defence has just released official photographs of its newest drone...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
British defence programmes are not, as a rule, famous for speed. The Ajax armoured vehicle spent eight years mired in delay; the RAF’s Wedgetail radar aircraft arrived three years late. So when three new long-range strike weapons go from a sheet of paper to a...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Voici le problème hypersonique américain en une phrase : les missiles fonctionnent, mais pas les usines. Les États-Unis ont consacré des années et des milliards à prouver qu’ils pouvaient construire des armes filant à plus de cinq fois la vitesse du son. Ce que….
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Hunting a modern submarine is one of the most demanding tasks in military aviation. It means hours of patient, fuel-hungry orbits over empty ocean, listening for a contact that may never appear. It is precisely the kind of dull, exhausting, unglamorous work that...
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