Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
The men on the beach at Hammam al-Shatt heard the sea before they heard the sky. It was a clear Tuesday morning, just after ten, the first of October 1985, and the Tunisian coast south of Tunis was doing what it always did at that hour, fishermen, a few children, the...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
On the morning of Yom Kippur, the holiest day on the Jewish calendar, the sirens came before the prayers were finished. It was 6 October 1973, and along the Suez Canal and across the Golan Heights, Egyptian and Syrian armies were pouring over Israel’s lines....
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Imagine hanging in space, five miles up, strapped into a single-seat jet that is not flying. It is dangling. Above your canopy, filling the entire sky, is the underside of the largest bomber the world has ever built, six propellers and four jets of it, roaring and...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
There is a particular elegance to watching a country refuse to choose sides. For half a century Egypt bought its wings where the politics of the moment allowed, Soviet MiGs, then American Falcons, then French Rafales, always a client, never a builder. Now Cairo...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
There is a quiet satisfaction, for anyone raised on the sight of the delta-winged chasse française, in watching the Rafale finally take its place in the fight it was arguably designed for. France’s most senior voices are no longer hedging. A French...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
A month ago, Donald Trump stood next to Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in Ankara and all but handed Turkey the keys to the F-35. Sanctions? Gone, he suggested. The stealth jet Ankara was thrown out of buying? Back on the table. It was the kind of moment that makes...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Five days. That is how long Ulchi Freedom Shield lasted before somebody pulled the plug. The largest combined military exercise on the Korean Peninsula was built to run eleven, 17 August through 27. Instead the United States and South Korea are shutting it down...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
The most consequential upgrade the E-2D Advanced Hawkeye has ever received will not change how the aircraft looks. No new wing, no new rotodome, no obvious external clue. What changes sits behind the fuselage skin: the computers, the software, the cockpit and the...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
On 17 August 2026, in a New Delhi government building most people have never heard of, India signed a contract to rent two robotic aircraft for the price of a small skyscraper. The deal, worth about Rs 1,943 crore (roughly US$200 million), leases two more MQ-9B...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
The U.S. Navy just handed Shield AI roughly $50 million to build a jet that doesn’t need a runway, and the U.S. Air Force declined to chip in a single dollar. One service sees the future. The other sees a very expensive question mark and a wallet that’s...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Peru has quietly filled in one of the most important blanks on its future fighter. On 19 August 2026, L3Harris confirmed it had been selected to supply the AN/ALQ-254(V)1 Viper Shield electronic-warfare suite for the F-16 Block 70s destined for the Fuerza Aérea del...
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