Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Farnborough has been running since 1948. The Boeing MQ-28 Ghost Bat first flew in 2021. On Monday, finally, the two met. Australia’s uncrewed combat aircraft made its Farnborough debut on the show’s opening day — on static display, in the US Department of...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
The drone had already been shot down. That is the detail that makes this loss different from the others. On Saturday, in northern Iraq, a US service member was killed during a controlled detonation of unexploded ordnance recovered from a downed Iranian one-way attack...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Most combat aircraft announced at airshows are defined by what they carry. Israel Aerospace Industries spent Monday introducing one defined by what it broadcasts. ELLYON has no bomb bay and no missile rails. Its weapon is a wideband electronically scanned jammer, and...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Sweden is giving Ukraine a fighter fleet. At Farnborough this week, the head of the Swedish Air Force explained how Sweden intends to avoid ending up smaller as a result. Major General Jonas Wikman told Breaking Defense that a further batch of twelve Gripen E fighters...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
When the Royal Air Force retired its last Reaper in the autumn of 2025, it did so with a gap in the middle of its capability. The replacement was already flying — the Protector RG Mk 1, sixteen of them on order — but it could not yet legally drop or fire anything. At...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Skunk Works and FalconWorks are the two most secretive advanced-projects shops in Western aerospace. Lockheed Martin’s built the U-2, the SR-71 and the F-117. BAE Systems’ is the British equivalent, the place where the awkward, classified and interesting...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
The model sitting under the lights on Anduril’s stand at Farnborough on Monday morning does not look like anything currently in the US Army inventory. It has two enormous tilting rotors, a fuselage shaped like a stretched teardrop, and where a cockpit should be...
Monde de l'aviation, Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Les portes de Farnborough se sont ouvertes ce matin. Pendant les cinq prochains jours, une portion de l'aérodrome du Hampshire deviendra le lieu où l'industrie aérospatiale découvrira les innovations des autres constructeurs, et où près de cent mille personnes se rassembleront pour observer….
Monde de l'aviation, Aviation militaire
Vue du ciel, on dirait un système de classement pour avions. Des rangées et des rangées d'appareils, ailes contre ailes, s'étendant sur dix kilomètres carrés de désert arizonien en lignes si droites qu'elles semblent dessinées. Des bombardiers ici. Des chasseurs là. Des avions de transport plus loin. Environ quatre mille...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Plus tôt cette année, le premier E-7 Wedgetail de la RAF a passé quelque temps sur un aérodrome du Wiltshire peu connu du grand public, pour l'activation de ses systèmes et le calibrage de son radar, avant d'être autorisé à rejoindre une escadrille opérationnelle. Ce n'est pas inhabituel….
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