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
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...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
The opening chapter of Wings of War — From Zeppelin to Sixth Generation, our series on how military aviation was invented, one breakthrough at a time.It is the first of November, 1911, and a young Italian lieutenant named Giulio Gavotti is flying a flimsy Etrich...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
In a hangar outside Bengaluru, the most important aircraft India has built in a generation is being readied for the moment that matters most: leaving the ground. The Tejas Mk2 — bigger, sharper and far more capable than the little fighter that shares its name...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Le lancement par catapulte est l'une des opérations les plus violentes de l'aviation : une accélération fulgurante de zéro à la vitesse de vol en deux secondes, un choc qui fait trembler les dents et plie l'acier. Le General Atomics Mojave s'en passe complètement. Ce drone est suffisamment imposant pour transporter des missiles et décolle avec une puissance impressionnante….
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Pull the throttle into afterburner and the jet that climbs away from the crowd is scarlet and white, the colours of the Danish flag wrapped around a screaming F-16. For two seasons, E-006 — the “Dannebrog” jet — has been the star of...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
On a grey June morning at the ILA Berlin air show, the most ambitious warplane Europe never built quietly ceased to exist. The Future Combat Air System — FCAS, or SCAF to the French — was meant to give France, Germany and Spain a sixth-generation fighter...
À l'intérieur de MiGFlug, Aviation militaire
“I feel the need — the need for speed.” “Talk to me, Goose.” Four decades after Top Gun first lit up the screen, those lines still make grown adults want to sprint to the nearest aircraft carrier. And almost all of them, sooner or later,...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Picture a small wooden crate, about the size of a car’s trunk, dropped by parachute into a field. A man runs to it, opens it, and pulls out what looks like a deflated grey rubber raft. He works a pump for about five minutes. The shapeless bundle swells,...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
On 20 June 1951, over the dry lakebed at Edwards Air Force Base, test pilot Jean “Skip” Ziegler did something no pilot had ever done. As his stubby little research jet, the Bell X-5, climbed away from the desert floor, he reached for a control and the...
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