Aviazione militare, Notizia
At 12:50 PM on March 29, four F-35A Lightning II stealth fighters touched down at Misawa Air Base in Aomori Prefecture, northeastern Japan. They taxied to the ramp, engines winding down, canopies opening in the cold northern air. It looked routine. It was anything...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
The first 100 hours of Operation Epic Fury cost approximately $3.7 billion — roughly $891 million per day. A staggering share of that went to a single, maddening problem: shooting down cheap Iranian drones with some of the most expensive aircraft on Earth. The math is...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
On March 25, a Gripen E fighter jet — designation F-39E, serial FAB 4109 — rolled out of Embraer’s facility in Gavião Peixoto, São Paulo state. It looks identical to every other Gripen E. But this one was built in Brazil, not Sweden. And that changes everything....
Aviazione militare, Notizia
On March 25, a U.S. Navy F/A-18E/F Super Hornet screamed low over the Iranian port city of Chabahar, its M61A2 Vulcan cannon spitting 20mm rounds at targets near the Imam Ali IRGC Naval Base. Seconds later, a shoulder-fired missile streaked upward and detonated just...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
Eleven months deployed out of twelve. Thousands of combat hours. The first-ever air-to-air kills for the F-35A. The 34th Fighter Squadron just earned the Raytheon Trophy — and no unit in the Air Force had a more gruelling year to show for it. The “Rude...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
For three consecutive days last week, two of America’s most secretive flying laboratories circled over the Gulf of Mexico in tight formation — and the aviation intelligence community is buzzing about what they were testing. Northrop Grumman’s heavily...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
I missili iraniani hanno trasformato la base aerea di Al Udeid nell'indirizzo americano più pericoloso del Medio Oriente. Ora il CENTCOM vuole seppellire il suo centro nevralgico sottoterra, ma un generale a tre stelle in pensione afferma che il piano è già troppo tardi. L'Air Forces Central ha emesso un...
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