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...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Fighter jets keep diaries. They keep them in stencilled paint, just below the cockpit rail, and if you know how to read them they will tell you exactly what kind of year the crews have had. On the Fourth of July, as the Super Hornets of Carrier Air Wing 8 recovered at...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Last week we walked you through the sustainment data fight simmering between Boeing and the Air Force over the T-7A Red Hawk. Seven days later, the Government Accountability Office showed up with receipts. GAO’s Weapon Systems Annual Assessment, released July 2...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Commercial satellite imagery has revealed two hardened structures of an unfamiliar type at China’s most important missile test and training complex, and their geometry does not match anything previously catalogued there. The structures, at the People’s...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
When we wrote last week that NATO’s next radar jet would be Swedish, the news still wore the modest clothing of a Reuters exclusive. On Tuesday in Ankara, it acquired numbers, signatures and a price tag. Secretary General Mark Rutte confirmed that the Alliance...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
The sirens came before the sunrise. In Manama’s old quarters and along Kuwait City’s waterfront towers, the same rising wail that Gulf residents have learned by heart this year pulled families out of bed and into stairwells in the small hours of Wednesday...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Six years ago the United States took Turkey’s F-35s away. The jets Ankara had already paid for went into storage in the Arizona desert, Turkish pilots were sent home from Luke Air Force Base, and roughly 100 stealth fighters on order evaporated. On Tuesday,...
Monde de l'aviation, Nouvelles
The Boeing 737 freighter working K2 Airways flight 1732 on Tuesday evening was less than an hour from home. It had left Sharjah for Karachi with five crew and a hold full of cargo, a two-hour hop across the Arabian Sea that Pakistani freight operators fly so often it...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Eighty targets. One night. That is CENTCOM’s answer to Iran shooting at oil tankers again. Overnight into Wednesday, US forces worked their way down a target list across southern Iran: air defense systems, command-and-control networks, coastal radar sites,...
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