Aviazione militare, Notizia
Sweden is giving Ukraine a fighter fleet. At Farnborough this week, the head of the Swedish Air Force explained how Sweden intends to avoid ending up smaller as a result. Major General Jonas Wikman told Breaking Defense that a further batch of twelve Gripen E fighters...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Notizia
In December 2011, an Air Zimbabwe Boeing 767 landed at London Gatwick and did not leave. It was impounded over unpaid debts, and with it went the last direct air link between Zimbabwe and the United Kingdom — a route the airline had flown since April 1980. On...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
When the Royal Air Force retired its last Reaper in the autumn of 2025, it did so with a gap in the middle of its capability. The replacement was already flying — the Protector RG Mk 1, sixteen of them on order — but it could not yet legally drop or fire anything. At...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
Skunk Works and FalconWorks are the two most secretive advanced-projects shops in Western aerospace. Lockheed Martin’s built the U-2, the SR-71 and the F-117. BAE Systems’ is the British equivalent, the place where the awkward, classified and interesting...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Notizia
The first big order of Farnborough 2026 landed before most of the stands had finished setting up. Riyadh Air, the Saudi carrier that flew its first paying passenger barely three weeks ago, spent Monday morning committing to 34 more widebody aircraft across both Boeing...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
Il modello esposto lunedì mattina sotto i riflettori dello stand di Anduril a Farnborough non assomiglia a nessun velivolo attualmente in dotazione all'esercito americano. Presenta due enormi rotori basculanti, una fusoliera a forma di goccia allungata e, dove dovrebbe esserci la cabina di pilotaggio...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Aviazione militare, Notizia
The gates opened at Farnborough this morning. For the next five days a stretch of Hampshire tarmac becomes the place where the aerospace industry finds out what everyone else has been building, and where roughly a hundred thousand people stand in a field watching very...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Aviazione militare, Notizia
Domenica sera, un giornalista presente alla base aerea di Andrews ha posto al presidente Trump una domanda diretta: l'aereo qatariano che ora utilizza come Air Force One non è dotato di sistemi di difesa antimissile, quindi perché lo sta pilotando? La risposta ha confermato quanto già ipotizzato dagli esperti di aviazione e sicurezza...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
Ogni discussione sugli aerei da combattimento autonomi giunge inevitabilmente alla stessa domanda, e non è di natura tecnica. Si tratta piuttosto di capire se la persona in cabina di pilotaggio si fiderà del velivolo che vola al di fuori della sua ala. Frank Kendall, che ha diretto l'aeronautica militare statunitense come Segretario della Difesa dal...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
The air base is named after a man who died in an aeroplane. Lieutenant Muwaffaq Salti was a Royal Jordanian Air Force pilot, killed in combat with Israeli fighters on 13 November 1966 during the Battle of Samu. Jordan gave his name to the base at Azraq, out in the...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
If you happened to be at Birmingham Airport on the afternoon of 15 July, you would have seen something that looked like a mistake: a Boeing 737 with a large rectangular fin bolted to its spine, painted an unlovely metallic green, climbing out over the West Midlands....
Aviazione militare, Notizia
On 28 May 2017, a photographer at Miho Air Base in western Japan took a picture of a Kawasaki C-2 transport, tail number 68-1203. It was an unremarkable aeroplane doing an unremarkable thing: a high-winged, T-tailed freighter on a ramp, clean-lined and entirely...
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