Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
It is the middle of the night somewhere over the Norwegian Sea, and a four-engine turboprop is flying low and slow above the black water. Inside, a Navy flight officer hunches over a screen, watching a pattern of floating microphones he has just seeded across the...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
It is 7 March 1964, and the desert south of Cairo shimmers in the morning heat. On the runway at Helwan sits a tiny, needle-nosed delta-wing jet, barely bigger than a sports car with wings. An Egyptian test pilot runs the engine up, releases the brakes, and the little...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
When you buy a front-line fighter, you also have to solve a quieter problem: how to train the pilots who will fly it. On 16 June 2026, Canada took a major step toward an answer — and the jet it chose is Italian. On the sidelines of the G7 summit in France,...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
High over the Mediterranean on 1 June 2026, a French Rafale pushed past the speed of sound and let a missile go. The moment of separation — missile leaving the rail of a jet travelling faster than sound — is one of the most violent things a weapon can be...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Le 16 juin 2026, deux des spectacles les plus rares du combat aérien moderne se partageaient le ciel de l'Arkansas : un F-22 Raptor et un F-35 aux couleurs de l'armée de l'air finlandaise, volant aile contre aile. L'un était conçu pour dominer le ciel ; l'autre pour tout observer….
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Over the flat plains of Çorlu in north-western Turkey this spring, a jet trainer and a tailless black drone flew in tight formation. Nothing unusual in that — except that no one was flying the drone. The pilot doing the commanding sat in the other aircraft entirely,...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Pendant des décennies, “ avion de chasse ” signifiait un pilote humain installé dans un cockpit. Le 17 juin 2026, l'US Air Force a discrètement mis fin à ce monopole. Elle a signé des contrats de production pour deux avions de combat à réaction sans cockpit, sans siège éjectable et sans pilote….
Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Some aircraft look wrong. The Blohm & Voss BV 141 looks impossible. The crew sits in a glazed pod on one side; the engine and the entire tail are on the other, joined by a stub of wing. It is as if someone took half of two different aeroplanes and bolted them...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
It was a bright, ordinary afternoon in Florida. At about two o’clock on 5 December 1945, five Grumman Avenger torpedo bombers rumbled off the runway at Naval Air Station Fort Lauderdale on a routine navigation exercise. Fourteen men, a clear sky, a familiar patch of...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
At 75,000 feet over the Baltic Sea, the world is dark blue above and curved below, and the only sound in the cockpit is the hiss of the pressure suit. On the morning of 29 June 1987, that calm ended with a bang.The right engine of Lt. Col. Duane Noll’s SR-71 Blackbird...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
A grey warship longer than three football fields is steaming through the Pacific, and stealth fighters are dropping onto its deck. For most navies that would be unremarkable. For Japan, it is something close to historic — because for eighty years, Japan insisted it...
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