Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
It is mid-morning on 8 June 2026 at Ellington Field in Houston, and Harry “D-Day” Daye is strapping into a machine that has not left the ground in seven years. The ramp smells of jet fuel and Texas heat. Behind him sits Jerod Flohr, one of the volunteers who spent the...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
It begins, as these things often do, not with a missile but with a laptop. Somewhere in the cavernous cargo hold of a French A400M Atlas — a hold built to swallow a helicopter or a 37-tonne armoured vehicle — an operator will soon sit at a console, watching sensor...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Somewhere off the coast of Oman, in the dark, two U.S. Army aviators are treading water. Their AH-64 Apache is gone — minutes ago it was flying a patrol near the mouth of the Strait of Hormuz, and now it is at the bottom of the Gulf. They are alive, but they are in...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Il est rare que les généraux deux étoiles s'en prennent de concert au Congrès. Ce printemps, vingt-deux d'entre eux l'ont fait. Dans une lettre unique adressée aux commissions des crédits de la Chambre et du Sénat, tous les généraux commandant une unité de chasse de la Garde nationale aérienne ont signé le même verdict sans détour : les États-Unis….
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Somewhere over Poltava Oblast, in the dark hours before dawn on 27 June, a Ukrainian MiG-29 simply went quiet. One moment the fighter was flying a combat mission; the next, contact was gone. The jet did not come home. This is the part of the war that does not trend....
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Walk the static line at ILA Berlin and you expect the usual choreography around a helicopter: a pilot strapping in, a crew chief signalling, the slow whine of an Arriel engine spooling up. This June, Airbus parked something stranger under the Brandenburg sun. The...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
It is a Saturday morning over the East Sea, and on a Korean radar screen the blips appear early — a cluster of them, more than ten military aircraft, Chinese and Russian, moving in sequence toward the edge of the country’s watch. Inside an air operations...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Le programme d'avions de chasse le plus coûteux de l'histoire vient de livrer au Corps des Marines des États-Unis six avions furtifs flambant neufs, incapables de voir. À la place de leur radar, chaque F-35B embarque un lest massif boulonné à l'avant pour assurer son équilibre. Les Marines les ont acceptés….
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
At the Irkutsk Aviation Plant on 25 June 2026, a two-seat jet that has spent two decades teaching student pilots how to fly lifted off on a roughly 50-minute sortie, climbed no higher than 2,000 metres (about 6,600 ft) and held its speed below 600 km/h (around 370...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
For roughly sixteen hours on 23 June 2026, two of the largest combat aircraft ever built carved a long arc through the cold airspace of the European Arctic. Two Russian Tu-160 strategic bombers — the variable-sweep giants NATO calls “Blackjack”...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Il est 4h30 du matin, heure de l'Est, et le M/T Kiku accomplit ce que les pétroliers font depuis un siècle dans le détroit d'Ormuz : franchir ce point de passage pétrolier crucial au monde avec plus de deux millions de barils de brut à son bord. Puis….
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
In the early 1950s, the U.S. Navy asked an audacious question: what if a jet fighter did not need a runway, or even an aircraft carrier? What if it could simply take off from the open sea? Convair’s answer was one of the strangest warplanes ever flown — a delta-winged...
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