Aviazione militare, Notizia
When the Patrouille de France’s nine blue-and-white Alphajets sweep over the Champs-Élysées on July 14, they won’t be alone. Flanking them will be two Mirage 2000Bs crewed by Franco-Ukrainian teams — the opening act of the largest Bastille Day aerial...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
It is now firm. Saab has signed a contract for 16 Gripen E fighters destined for Ukraine — turning the spring’s letter of intent into a binding deal and committing one of the West’s most capable light fighters to the Ukrainian Air Force.The contract,...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
At 1:54pm on June 30, a Bulgarian MiG-29 lit its afterburners and clawed off the runway at Graf Ignatievo. Three minutes later it had formed up on the wing of a civilian Airbus A320 that had just transmitted the four digits every air-defence controller dreads:...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
Si avvicinano le undici di notte dell'11 novembre 1940 e il tenente comandante Kenneth "Hooch" Williamson sta facendo scendere il suo Fairey Swordfish attraverso la contraerea sopra il porto di Taranto. I razzi al magnesio pendono nel cielo, illuminando il cielo...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
The Germans had a word for it. They always do. When Luftwaffe pilots talked about the Panavia Tornado, they called it the eierlegende Wollmilchsau — the “egg-laying wool-milk pig.” A mythical creature that does everything: lays eggs, produces wool, gives...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
A duecento miglia dal confine NATO più vicino, la Serbia sta costruendo una rete di difesa aerea progettata da Pechino e non approvata da nessuna alleanza occidentale. Il 28 giugno, il presidente Aleksandar Vučić ha confermato ciò che gli analisti della difesa sospettavano da mesi: Belgrado si sta muovendo...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
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...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
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...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
At the Farnborough air show in 1953, the crowd hears it before they see it. Ten engines, building from a hum to a roar, and then the largest all-metal flying boat ever built slides overhead — a silver whale of an aircraft, a 219-foot wing, an ocean liner that...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Notizia
Step onto a Lufthansa A321 at Frankfurt this year and you might find yourself aboard a flying time machine. One aircraft in the fleet, registration D-AISZ, wears a design no airline has flown in earnest for half a century: a deep blue cheatline trimmed in yellow that...
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