Aviazione militare, Notizia
Somewhere in the Pacific in the coming weeks, a US Navy cruiser that fired Tomahawks in two wars will be hit by torpedoes, missiles and bombs until she slips under — and the people shooting will be her friends. The decommissioned USS Mobile Bay is about to become the...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
Among the tall ships and grey hulls that filled New York Harbor for America’s 250th birthday, the strangest silhouette wasn’t a ship at all. Lashed to the flight deck of USS Nimitz, between rows of Super Hornets, sat a windowless grey machine with folded wings and no...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Aviazione militare, Notizia
On July 4, virtually everything in the US military that flies made an appearance over Washington. Three bombers in one formation. Eight Thunderbirds. A brand-new Air Force One with a Raptor escort. The one aircraft everybody on the internet was actually waiting for...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
The thermometer read over 100 degrees Fahrenheit, the crowd on the National Mall had been baking since morning, and somewhere above the haze four F-5 Tigers were pulling into formation. One of them was flown by the administrator of NASA himself. It was 1:14 p.m. on...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
The AGM-86B was designed when the Soviet Union still existed, gas cost about a dollar a gallon, and the B-52 crews loading it were younger than the bomber. More than four decades later, the United States has decided it cannot let the missile retire just yet. In 2026,...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Notizia
Bangkok has two airports, and for years the glamorous international arrivals went to just one of them. On July 1, 2026, flydubai bet on the other. Dubai’s low-cost carrier launched a daily service to Don Mueang — Bangkok’s original airport and now the largest low-cost...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
Two companies. One contract. Decades of consequences. Sometime around August 2026, the US Navy is expected to decide who will build the F/A-XX — its sixth-generation carrier fighter and one of the most important American aircraft programmes of the century. The choice...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Notizia
Every July, a quiet corner of Gloucestershire becomes the busiest military airfield on Earth. Fighters, bombers and display teams from dozens of nations pack the ramp at RAF Fairford for the Royal International Air Tattoo — the largest military airshow in the world....
Aviazione militare, Notizia
Per vent'anni, la risposta occidentale alla potenza aerea cinese è stata semplice: i nostri aerei sono migliori. Gli F-22 e gli F-35 superano in capacità di rilevamento, furtività e connettività qualsiasi cosa Pechino possa schierare. Questo potrebbe essere ancora vero per un singolo velivolo. Ma potrebbe anche essere sul punto di smettere di avere importanza...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
For decades, one rule has sat quietly at the centre of Western air power: a human being decides when a weapon kills. On June 30, 2026, Britain edged away from it. Buried inside a sweeping Defence Investment Plan — more than £5 billion for drones, the largest such...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Notizia
Somewhere on the ramp at Paine Field in Washington State sit rows of enormous, finished airliners with nowhere to go. They are Boeing 777Xs — the biggest twinjets ever built — and most of them have never carried a paying passenger. In 2026 they are still waiting,...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
Per mesi, il programma di caccia più ambizioso d'Europa ha avuto un buco al centro: i fondi. Il 3 luglio 2026, quel buco è stato colmato. Il Regno Unito, l'Italia e il Giappone hanno firmato un contratto da 4,6 miliardi di sterline (14 miliardi di euro e 6,1 miliardi di yen) per portare avanti il loro aereo da combattimento di sesta generazione...
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