Aviazione militare, Notizia
For two decades, the taxpayers who foot the bill for the most expensive weapon in human history got one honest annual accounting of it: the Government Accountability Office’s yearly review of the F-35. This year, the Pentagon locked it in a drawer. The GAO confirmed...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
It was fitting that the promise came in Paris. On 14 July — France’s national day — President Emmanuel Macron stood alongside Volodymyr Zelensky at the close of a “Coalition of the Willing” summit and announced that Ukraine had agreed a plan to acquire 16 Rafale...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
At 34 minutes past the hour on 14 July, a single-seat Eurofighter in plain grey primer rolled down the runway at Airbus’s Manching site in Bavaria, lit its two EJ200 engines and climbed away. The aircraft carried the German military registration 34+02. It was the...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
Alle 10:25 del mattino del 14 luglio, la Patrouille de France ha sfilato sull'Arco di Trionfo srotolando tre nastri blu, bianchi e rossi lungo gli Champs-Élysées. Dietro di loro si è riversato un fiume di getti d'acqua. E per la prima volta nella lunga storia della Francia...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
Da qualche parte nel Mar Arabico settentrionale, una superportaerei a propulsione nucleare da 100.000 tonnellate sta facendo qualcosa che nessuna nave da guerra americana ha mai fatto nell'era moderna: semplicemente non si fermerà. La USS Abraham Lincoln è partita da San Diego prima di Natale, ha toccato un molo una sola volta e...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
Ottawa has made a choice that says as much about politics as it does about firepower. Canada will arm its future F-35A fleet with the Joint Strike Missile, the Norwegian-built cruise weapon that tucks inside the Lightning II’s belly without spoiling its stealth. Prime...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Aviazione militare, Notizia
Every couple of years a former RAF airfield in Hampshire becomes the centre of the aviation universe for five days. From July 20, it happens again — and the 2026 edition of the Farnborough International Airshow is shaping up to be the biggest in the event’s 78-year...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
Just after first light on July 10, ten F-22 Raptors dropped out of the English sky and rolled onto the runway at RAF Fairford under the callsign TREND. They looked like they had been to war. That is because they had. These were the 1st Fighter Wing’s jets from Joint...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
At first glance the little aircraft looks as though someone assembled it from the wrong box of parts. It has a wing at the front and a wing at the back, a propeller facing the wrong way, and a pilot perched right up in the nose. It looks less like a fighter than an...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
In the mid-1950s, a needle-thin French aircraft with jet engines perched on its wingtips and a rocket motor in its belly clawed its way toward the edge of space, touching nearly twice the speed of sound and setting records for how fast a jet could climb. And then...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
In the winter of 1946, Britain was perhaps six months away from becoming the first nation to fly faster than sound. In a guarded hangar sat a small, bullet-shaped jet called the Miles M.52, all but finished, its test pilot chosen, its supersonic trials pencilled in...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
Imagine a fighter aircraft that cannot take off. It has no way to move under its own power on the runway, no way to build up speed, no way to leave the ground at all. To fly it, you must bolt it to the roof of an airliner, haul it up to altitude, and drop it — and...
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