Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Sweden is giving Ukraine a fighter fleet. At Farnborough this week, the head of the Swedish Air Force explained how Sweden intends to avoid ending up smaller as a result. Major General Jonas Wikman told Breaking Defense that a further batch of twelve Gripen E fighters...
Monde de l'aviation, Nouvelles
In December 2011, an Air Zimbabwe Boeing 767 landed at London Gatwick and did not leave. It was impounded over unpaid debts, and with it went the last direct air link between Zimbabwe and the United Kingdom — a route the airline had flown since April 1980. On...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
When the Royal Air Force retired its last Reaper in the autumn of 2025, it did so with a gap in the middle of its capability. The replacement was already flying — the Protector RG Mk 1, sixteen of them on order — but it could not yet legally drop or fire anything. At...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Skunk Works and FalconWorks are the two most secretive advanced-projects shops in Western aerospace. Lockheed Martin’s built the U-2, the SR-71 and the F-117. BAE Systems’ is the British equivalent, the place where the awkward, classified and interesting...
Monde de l'aviation, Nouvelles
The first big order of Farnborough 2026 landed before most of the stands had finished setting up. Riyadh Air, the Saudi carrier that flew its first paying passenger barely three weeks ago, spent Monday morning committing to 34 more widebody aircraft across both Boeing...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
The model sitting under the lights on Anduril’s stand at Farnborough on Monday morning does not look like anything currently in the US Army inventory. It has two enormous tilting rotors, a fuselage shaped like a stretched teardrop, and where a cockpit should be...
Monde de l'aviation, Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
The gates opened at Farnborough this morning. For the next five days a stretch of Hampshire tarmac becomes the place where the aerospace industry finds out what everyone else has been building, and where roughly a hundred thousand people stand in a field watching very...
Monde de l'aviation, Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Dimanche soir, un journaliste présent à la base aérienne d'Andrews a posé une question directe au président Trump : l'avion qatari qu'il utilise actuellement comme Air Force One n'est pas équipé de systèmes antimissiles, alors pourquoi le pilote-t-il ? La réponse a confirmé ce que les spécialistes de l'aviation et de la sécurité s'attendaient à voir….
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Tous les débats sur les avions de combat autonomes finissent par aboutir à la même question, et elle n'est pas d'ordre technique. Il s'agit de savoir si le pilote fera confiance à l'appareil qui évolue sous son aile. Frank Kendall, qui a dirigé l'US Air Force en tant que secrétaire à l'aviation civile de...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
The air base is named after a man who died in an aeroplane. Lieutenant Muwaffaq Salti was a Royal Jordanian Air Force pilot, killed in combat with Israeli fighters on 13 November 1966 during the Battle of Samu. Jordan gave his name to the base at Azraq, out in the...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
If you happened to be at Birmingham Airport on the afternoon of 15 July, you would have seen something that looked like a mistake: a Boeing 737 with a large rectangular fin bolted to its spine, painted an unlovely metallic green, climbing out over the West Midlands....
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
On 28 May 2017, a photographer at Miho Air Base in western Japan took a picture of a Kawasaki C-2 transport, tail number 68-1203. It was an unremarkable aeroplane doing an unremarkable thing: a high-winged, T-tailed freighter on a ramp, clean-lined and entirely...
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