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...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
La mattina del 18 aprile 1943, sedici caccia P-38 Lightning decollarono dalla pista di atterraggio Fighter Two a Guadalcanal e si diressero verso ovest sul Mar delle Salomone. La loro missione non era quella di ingaggiare formazioni nemiche o scortare bombardieri. Era quella di uccidere un uomo: l'ammiraglio Isoroku...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
The world’s largest international maritime exercise is underway. Rim of the Pacific 2026 — the 30th iteration of a series that began in 1971 — kicked off on June 24 at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii. It will run through July 31, and the numbers alone...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
A Bengaluru startup has just thrown India’s hat into the ring of autonomous combat aviation. Flying Wedge Defence & Aerospace (FWDA) has unveiled the FWD Supreme — an AI-piloted fighter concept designed to fly, fight, and make tactical decisions without a...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
The Boeing T-7A Red Hawk was supposed to be the Air Force’s feel-good story — a sleek, digitally-designed trainer built to replace the geriatric T-38 Talon and modernize pilot training for a generation. It still might be. But a three-part investigation by...
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
Indonesia has officially abandoned its plan to co-produce South Korea’s KF-21 Boramae fighter jet, ending a partnership that was supposed to give Jakarta its own production line and a seat at the table of advanced fighter manufacturing. Instead, Indonesia will...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
The United States Air Force is about to pour $4.2 billion into its three main operating bases in the United Kingdom — the single largest American basing investment in Britain in decades. A presentation by the Air Force Installation and Mission Support Center, obtained...
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,...
Commenti recenti