Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
On the morning of 24 September 1958, a flight of Nationalist Chinese F-86 Sabres was climbing over the Taiwan Strait when a formation of Communist MiG-17s slid past — a little higher and, on paper, the better aircraft. Then the Sabres did something no fighter had ever...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
Here is a riddle the Pentagon wrote by accident and never quite solved. In December 2005 the U.S. Air Force fielded the most fearsome air superiority fighter ever built — the Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor — expressly to retire the aging McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle. Two...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
Ogni tanto capita di vedere un caccia che vince la sua sfida in modo così netto da porre fine a ogni discussione. Il Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor è proprio questo tipo di aereo. Ha surclassato un prototipo rivale, ha riscritto il ruolo di un caccia ed è entrato in servizio come il più performante...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
Dawn over Kadena, and the concrete is already trembling. Two Pratt & Whitney turbofans spool up behind a jet the size of a small barn, the pilot walks the throttles into afterburner, and for a heartbeat the whole world is noise. Then the nose comes up — and keeps...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
La maggior parte dei piloti da caccia segue lo stesso percorso stretto: scuola di volo, nomina a ufficiale, cabina di pilotaggio prima ancora di avere l'età per noleggiare un'auto senza sovrapprezzo. Kenneth Gilmore ha iniziato grazie a un programma di football americano. Prima ancora di provare le forze G, disegnava schemi di gioco su un...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
Somewhere over the Nevada high desert, a young American fighter pilot rolls into a turn and sees something that should not exist. A stubby, silver dart is sliding into formation off his wing — snub nose, sharp delta, a red star where a national insignia ought to be....
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
Some Cold War weapons were terrifying. A few were beautiful. And then there was the Bartini Beriev VVA-14 — a machine that looked like a flying saucer had mated with a submarine, and was built, in all seriousness, to stalk and kill American nuclear missile boats. It...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
Seen from the ground, it looked like an accident waiting to happen: a single-seat fighter — a Messerschmitt Bf 109 or a Focke-Wulf Fw 190 — bolted rigidly to the spine of a twin-engined Junkers Ju 88 bomber, the two machines climbing away as one grotesque,...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
Autumn, 1933. On a grass airfield outside Kharkiv, a shape rolls out of its hangar that looks less like an aeroplane and more like a building that has decided to fly. Its wing stretches 53 metres from tip to tip — thick enough for a grown man to walk inside it and...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
The first thing the crowd at Zhukovsky hears is the noise; the second thing it notices is that something is badly wrong with the wings. A dark, whale-nosed fighter comes howling low across the airfield, and its wings — unmistakably, impossibly — appear to have been...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
Denmark has decided how it will watch the top of the world. On Jul. 7, 2026, the Danish Ministry of Defence confirmed a provisional decision to buy two Boeing P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft — long-range sub-hunters built to prowl the North Atlantic and the...
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