Aviazione militare, Notizia
A $17.9 million armed overwatch aircraft is a total loss because a trainee pilot turned the wrong valve during a training sortie. The Air Force Special Operations Command investigation into the October 2025 crash of an OA-1K Skyraider II has revealed a chain of errors...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
An F-15EX Eagle II has touched down at Kadena Air Base. The newest variant of Boeing’s legendary air superiority fighter landed on Okinawa’s most strategically important airfield on June 29, returning to the Pacific’s frontline base a year after the...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
The engines Turkey needs for its fifth-generation fighter are on the way — and Washington just wrote the permission slip. The Trump administration has notified Congress of a more than $700 million sale of General Electric F110 turbofan engines for Ankara’s TAI...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
The world’s most ambitious sixth-generation fighter programme just survived its biggest political test. The United Kingdom has committed £8.6 billion over the next four years to the Global Combat Air Programme, as part of its new £298 billion Defence Investment...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
A C-130J Super Hercules at a forward operating location. The Hercules has served as the backbone of tactical airlift for seven decades, but the Air Force is now planning its eventual replacement. (U.S. Air Force / Wikimedia Commons) Somewhere in the western Pacific,...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
A Brazilian Air Force KC-390 Millennium (FAB 2858) on display at NATO Days 2023 in the Czech Republic. The aircraft has rapidly gained traction with European air forces. (Wikimedia Commons) In February 2026, Embraer and Northrop Grumman signed a memorandum of...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
Somewhere in China’s vast defence-industrial complex, a missile is being built that could fundamentally change the arithmetic of air combat over the Pacific. The PL-16 — Beijing’s next-generation beyond-visual-range air-to-air missile — has never been...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
Kelly Johnson costruì l'F-104 Starfighter con un unico scopo: salire velocemente, volare in alto e abbattere i bombardieri sovietici prima che raggiungessero le città americane. L'ingegnere della Lockheed intervistò i piloti da caccia della guerra di Corea nel 1951 e concluse che ciò che desideravano non era un altro aereo pesante,...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
On the afternoon of 6 April 1965, test pilot Roland “Bee” Beamont was having lunch at a pub near Boscombe Down when the BBC news bulletin came through the radio. Chancellor of the Exchequer James Callaghan, midway through his Budget Speech in the House of...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
In September 1967, an ungainly four-engine turboprop lumbered off the runway at Nha Trang Air Base in South Vietnam. It looked like any other C-130 Hercules — the workhorse cargo plane that had been hauling troops, ammunition, and jeeps across theatre since the early...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
L'Argentina entrò in guerra nelle Falkland nell'aprile del 1982 con cinque missili Exocet lanciati dall'aria. Cinque. Quella era l'intera scorta: la Francia aveva consegnato la variante AM39 insieme a una manciata di caccia Super Étendard pochi mesi prima dell'inizio del conflitto, e...
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