Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
RAF Fairford has become a American fortress. On the Gloucestershire tarmac, parked wing-tip to wing-tip, sit 21 heavy bombers—15 B-1B Lancers and 6 B-52H Stratofortresses—representing the largest forward-deployed bomber concentration since the Cold War. Three...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
A German fighter pilot sits in the cockpit of a Eurofighter Typhoon, but she’s not alone. Alongside her wingman—a sleek, autonomous drone packed with sensors and weapons—executes maneuvers no human could withstand. This isn’t science fiction. Germany is...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
A split-second left-hand turn. A missile detonating just meters behind the canopy. A pilot alive only because chance—or instinct—moved his jet out of a kill zone. On March 25, 2026, a US Navy F/A-18E Super Hornet conducted a low-altitude strafing run near Iran’s...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
On March 27, 2026, Iranian ballistic missiles and drones screamed across the Arabian Gulf and slammed into Prince Sultan Air Base south of Riyadh. When the dust settled, the damage was devastating: a U.S. Air Force E-3G Sentry early-warning aircraft sat crippled on...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
In October 2023, Turkey was expelled from the F-35 programme. The reason: Ankara had purchased the Russian S-400 air defence system, and Washington refused to risk integrating America’s most advanced stealth fighter into an air force that also operated Russian...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
The fighter jets rolling onto the runway at NAS Fallon in Nevada are not U.S. Navy aircraft. They are operated by TacAir — a private company based in Reno. The pilots in the cockpits are civilians, many of them former military. Their job is to fly aggressively against...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
It came home to Portsmouth on October 11, 2025, callsign TABOR61, nose adorned with two small silhouettes of Shahed-type drones alongside the figure of Ares. The Idaho Air National Guard A-10C had just finished six months in the CENTCOM area of responsibility. It had...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Photographers watching the B-2 Spirits taxi out for another Iran mission on March 25 noticed something odd. Rows of white rectangular patches — uniformly sized, black-bordered — running along the leading edges of both wings. On two separate aircraft. Nobody at the Air...
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