{"id":2630630,"date":"2026-06-24T22:46:55","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T20:46:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/?p=2630630"},"modified":"2026-06-24T22:47:24","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T20:47:24","slug":"stealth-aircraft-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/it\/stealth-aircraft-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Stealth: How Aircraft Learned to Vanish From Radar"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>.et_pb_title_container h1.entry-title { padding-top: 40px !important; }<\/style><p style=\"font-size:15px;color:#777;font-style:italic;margin-bottom:18px\">Parte di <strong>Ali di guerra: dagli Zeppelin alla sesta generazione<\/strong>, la nostra serie sui grandi punti di svolta dell&#039;aviazione militare.<\/p><p>Just before three in the morning on 17 January 1991, the people of Baghdad woke to the heaviest anti-aircraft barrage the world had ever seen. Tracer fire climbed in solid sheets, missiles streaked upward, the whole sky over the city boiled with fire. And it was all aimed at nothing &mdash; or rather, at something the gunners could not see, hear in time, or track.<\/p><p>High above them, a handful of strange black aircraft shaped like flying arrowheads were sliding through the dark, completely invisible to the radars sweeping the sky. One by one they opened their bomb bays over the nerve centres of Iraq&rsquo;s air defences &mdash; the command posts and communications hubs that were supposed to coordinate the city&rsquo;s protection &mdash; and dropped their bombs straight through the roofs. Not one of the attackers was scratched. In a single night, the F-117 stealth fighter had proved that an aircraft could fly over the most heavily defended city on Earth as if the defences were not there at all.<\/p>\n<div style=\"background:#f3f4f6;padding:18px 22px;margin:24px 0\"><p style=\"margin:0 0 10px;font-weight:700;color:#333;font-size:15px;letter-spacing:.3px\">INFORMAZIONI RAPIDE<\/p><table style=\"border-collapse:collapse;font-size:15px;line-height:1.5\"><tr><td style=\"padding:6px 14px 6px 0;color:#555;vertical-align:top;white-space:nowrap\"><strong>Che cosa<\/strong><\/td><td style=\"padding:6px 0;color:#222\">Stealth &mdash; shaping an aircraft so radar can barely see it<\/td><\/tr><tr><td style=\"padding:6px 14px 6px 0;color:#555;vertical-align:top;white-space:nowrap\"><strong>Il primo del suo genere<\/strong><\/td><td style=\"padding:6px 0;color:#222\">The Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk<\/td><\/tr><tr><td style=\"padding:6px 14px 6px 0;color:#555;vertical-align:top;white-space:nowrap\"><strong>The unlikely seed<\/strong><\/td><td style=\"padding:6px 0;color:#222\">A Soviet physicist&rsquo;s equations, ignored at home<\/td><\/tr><tr><td style=\"padding:6px 14px 6px 0;color:#555;vertical-align:top;white-space:nowrap\"><strong>debutto in combattimento<\/strong><\/td><td style=\"padding:6px 0;color:#222\">Panama, 1989; then the opening night of the Gulf War, 1991<\/td><\/tr><tr><td style=\"padding:6px 14px 6px 0;color:#555;vertical-align:top;white-space:nowrap\"><strong>The truth<\/strong><\/td><td style=\"padding:6px 0;color:#222\">Stealth reduces detection &mdash; it does not make an aircraft invisible<\/td><\/tr><tr><td style=\"padding:6px 14px 6px 0;color:#555;vertical-align:top;white-space:nowrap\"><strong>Oggi<\/strong><\/td><td style=\"padding:6px 0;color:#222\">America&rsquo;s F-22, F-35 and B-21; China&rsquo;s J-20; Russia&rsquo;s Su-57<\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/div>\n<h2 id=\"the-theory\" style=\"padding-top:22px\">The theory hidden in a Soviet journal<\/h2><p>The strangest thing about stealth is where it came from. In the 1960s a Soviet physicist named Pyotr Ufimtsev published dense equations describing how radar waves scatter off the edges of an object. The Soviet establishment saw no military value in them. An engineer at Lockheed&rsquo;s legendary &ldquo;Skunk Works&rdquo; did. Using Ufimtsev&rsquo;s maths, the Americans worked out that an aircraft built from flat, carefully angled panels could deflect radar energy away from the sender, so that almost nothing bounced back.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin:0 0 24px;width:100%\"><img data-opt-id=167031347  fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:0e0_.b970\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:mauto\/ig:avif\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/06\/f-117-nighthawk-stealth-fighter.jpg\" alt=\"A Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk stealth aircraft\" style=\"display:block;width:100%!important;max-width:100%!important;height:auto!important\"><figcaption style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin-top:6px;font-style:italic\">The faceted Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk. Its strange angular shape &mdash; nicknamed the &ldquo;Hopeless Diamond&rdquo; in design &mdash; scattered radar away from the sender. Photo: U.S. Air Force.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The result looked nothing like an aeroplane. Early models were so angular and aerodynamically awkward that the design was nicknamed the &ldquo;Hopeless Diamond,&rdquo; and it took fly-by-wire computers to keep the thing in the air at all. But on radar it was barely the size of a bird. The demonstrator, Have Blue, led directly to the operational F-117 &mdash; built and flown in total secrecy for years.<\/p><p>The secrecy was almost obsessive. The F-117 flew only at night, from a remote desert base, and the U.S. government refused even to admit it existed until 1988, by which time it had been operational for years. Pilots led double lives, vanishing into the dark and returning before dawn. The aircraft was so unstable that they nicknamed it the &ldquo;Wobblin&rsquo; Goblin&rdquo; &mdash; only its computers, adjusting the controls dozens of times a second, kept the unnatural shape flying at all.<\/p><h2 id=\"over-baghdad\" style=\"padding-top:22px\">Invisible over Baghdad<\/h2><p>The F-117 actually drew its first blood not over Iraq but over Panama in 1989, in a <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/f-117-nighthawk-first-combat-panama-just-cause-1989\/\">little-remembered debut<\/a>. But it was the Gulf War that made stealth famous. Throughout that conflict the Nighthawks struck the most dangerous, most heavily defended targets in the country &mdash; and came home untouched, again and again, while conventional aircraft needed whole packages of jammers and escorts to survive. Stealth did not just protect the aircraft; it let a single bomber do the work that once took a fleet.<\/p><p>The numbers told the story. The stealth fighters made up only a small fraction of the aircraft over Iraq, yet on the opening nights they struck a large share of the most important strategic targets &mdash; the command bunkers, the headquarters, the communications nodes &mdash; precisely because they alone could reach them without a small army of support aircraft clearing the way. Stealth had not just added a capability; it had changed what was worth attempting.<\/p><h2 id=\"facets-to-curves\" style=\"padding-top:22px\">From facets to curves<\/h2><p>The F-117&rsquo;s flat panels were a crutch for slow computers. As computing power grew, engineers learned to shape stealth into smooth, continuous curves &mdash; and the result was the B-2 Spirit, a flying wing that blends low radar signature with the range to cross the planet. The next generation folded stealth together with everything else: the F-22 Raptor and F-35 combine a low signature with supersonic speed, advanced radar and sensor fusion, so they can detect and shoot an enemy long before being seen themselves.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin:0 0 24px;width:100%\"><img data-opt-id=1022052135  fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:0e0_.b970\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:mauto\/ig:avif\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/06\/b-2-spirit-stealth-bomber.jpg\" alt=\"A B-2 Spirit stealth bomber\" style=\"display:block;width:100%!important;max-width:100%!important;height:auto!important\"><figcaption style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin-top:6px;font-style:italic\">The B-2 Spirit. Smooth, curved stealth replaced the F-117&rsquo;s facets once computers were fast enough to shape it. Photo: U.S. Air Force.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin:0 0 24px;width:100%\"><img data-opt-id=1548823450  decoding=\"async\" class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:0e0_.b970\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:mauto\/ig:avif\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/06\/f-22-raptor-twilight-modern-air-power.jpg\" alt=\"An F-22 Raptor stealth fighter at twilight\" style=\"display:block;width:100%!important;max-width:100%!important;height:auto!important\"><figcaption style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin-top:6px;font-style:italic\">The F-22 Raptor combines stealth with speed and sensors &mdash; designed to see and shoot first. Photo: U.S. Air Force.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2 id=\"not-invisibility\" style=\"padding-top:22px\">Stealth is not invisibility<\/h2><p>It is vital to understand what stealth is not. It does not make an aircraft invisible; it makes it much harder to detect, track and hit &mdash; shrinking the range at which defences can react to almost nothing. But &ldquo;almost&rdquo; is not &ldquo;never.&rdquo; In 1999 a Serbian missile crew, using old low-frequency radar and clever tactics, managed to shoot down an F-117 &mdash; the only one ever lost in combat &mdash; a reminder that no advantage in war lasts forever. The story has a remarkable coda: years later the American pilot who was shot down that night and the Serbian officer who shot him down met in person, and became friends &mdash; two men who had tried to kill each other, sharing a meal and a strange mutual respect. Today a quiet counter-stealth race is under way, with long-wavelength radars and heat-seeking sensors all hunting for ways to see the unseeable.<\/p><h2 id=\"everyone\" style=\"padding-top:22px\">Everyone wants it<\/h2><p>For two decades stealth was an American monopoly. No longer. China flies the Chengdu J-20, Russia the Su-57, and the next American bomber, the B-21 Raider, is already <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/b-21-raider-quietly-advances-flight-testing\/\">in flight testing<\/a>. Stealth has become the price of admission to the front rank of air power &mdash; and the foundation on which the coming sixth generation is being built.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin:0 0 24px;width:100%\"><img data-opt-id=1478567636  decoding=\"async\" class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:0e0_.b970\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:mauto\/ig:avif\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/06\/chengdu-j-20-china-fifth-generation.jpg\" alt=\"Un caccia stealth Chengdu J-20\" style=\"display:block;width:100%!important;max-width:100%!important;height:auto!important\"><figcaption style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin-top:6px;font-style:italic\">China&rsquo;s Chengdu J-20. Stealth is no longer an American monopoly. Photo: Wikimedia Commons.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n<div style=\"background:#eef3ff;border:1px solid #cdddff;border-left:5px solid #5C91FF;padding:16px 20px;margin:24px 0\"><p style=\"margin:0 0 8px;font-weight:700;letter-spacing:.3px;color:#1a3a7a;font-size:14px\">POWERS COMPARED &mdash; THE STEALTH RACE<\/p><table style=\"border-collapse:collapse;font-size:15px;line-height:1.5\"><tr><td style=\"padding:5px 14px 5px 0;color:#555;white-space:nowrap;vertical-align:top\"><strong>Who got there first<\/strong><\/td><td style=\"padding:5px 0\">The United States &mdash; the F-117, then the B-2, F-22 and F-35<\/td><\/tr><tr><td style=\"padding:5px 14px 5px 0;color:#555;white-space:nowrap;vertical-align:top\"><strong>The hidden origin<\/strong><\/td><td style=\"padding:5px 0\">A Soviet physicist&rsquo;s theory, used by America rather than the USSR<\/td><\/tr><tr><td style=\"padding:5px 14px 5px 0;color:#555;white-space:nowrap;vertical-align:top\"><strong>The challengers<\/strong><\/td><td style=\"padding:5px 0\">China&rsquo;s J-20 and Russia&rsquo;s Su-57 &mdash; and a global counter-stealth effort<\/td><\/tr><tr><td style=\"padding:5px 14px 5px 0;color:#555;white-space:nowrap;vertical-align:top\"><strong>Il verdetto<\/strong><\/td><td style=\"padding:5px 0\">Stealth buys time and surprise &mdash; until someone learns to see through it<\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/div>\n<p><em>Sources: National Museum of the U.S. Air Force; Lockheed Martin historical accounts; standard histories of stealth technology and the 1991 Gulf War.<\/em><\/p>\n<!--SERIESBOX--><div style=\"border:1px solid #d8d8d8;background:#f7f9fc;padding:28px 30px;margin:42px 0;border-radius:0;\"><div style=\"font:700 22px\/1.25 Montserrat,Arial,sans-serif;letter-spacing:0.4px;color:#5C91FF;margin-bottom:20px;\">Tutti gli articoli della serie<\/div><table style=\"border-collapse:collapse;border:0;width:auto;font-family:Montserrat,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px;line-height:1.45;\"><tr><td 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style=\"display:block;font-weight:400;font-size:13.5px;line-height:1.45;color:#555;\">Da Zeppelin a Sixth Generation<\/span><\/span><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/zeppelin-airship-military-history-wwi\/\" style=\"flex:0 0 264px;scroll-snap-align:start;display:block;text-decoration:none;border:1px solid #d8d8d8;background:#fff;border-radius:0;overflow:hidden;font-family:Montserrat,Arial,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"display:block;width:100%;height:150px;background-image:url('https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:0e0_.b970\/w:768\/h:523\/q:mauto\/ig:avif\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/06\/german-zeppelin-airship-in-flight.jpg');background-size:cover;background-position:center;\"><\/span><span style=\"display:block;padding:13px 16px 18px;\"><span style=\"display:block;font-weight:700;font-size:16px;line-height:1.3;color:#1a3a7a;margin-bottom:7px;\">Il dirigibile in guerra<\/span><span style=\"display:block;font-weight:400;font-size:13.5px;line-height:1.45;color:#555;\">Come lo Zeppelin port\u00f2 per la prima volta la guerra nei cieli<\/span><\/span><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/military-reconnaissance-aircraft-to-satellites\/\" style=\"flex:0 0 264px;scroll-snap-align:start;display:block;text-decoration:none;border:1px solid #d8d8d8;background:#fff;border-radius:0;overflow:hidden;font-family:Montserrat,Arial,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"display:block;width:100%;height:150px;background-image:url('https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:0e0_.b970\/w:768\/h:478\/q:mauto\/ig:avif\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/06\/wwi-reconnaissance-biplane.jpg');background-size:cover;background-position:center;\"><\/span><span style=\"display:block;padding:13px 16px 18px;\"><span style=\"display:block;font-weight:700;font-size:16px;line-height:1.3;color:#1a3a7a;margin-bottom:7px;\">Il primo incarico: la ricognizione.<\/span><span style=\"display:block;font-weight:400;font-size:13.5px;line-height:1.45;color:#555;\">Gli occhi che vinsero la Marna e salirono in orbita<\/span><\/span><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/fighter-aircraft-air-superiority-history\/\" style=\"flex:0 0 264px;scroll-snap-align:start;display:block;text-decoration:none;border:1px solid #d8d8d8;background:#fff;border-radius:0;overflow:hidden;font-family:Montserrat,Arial,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"display:block;width:100%;height:150px;background-image:url('https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:0e0_.b970\/w:768\/h:512\/q:mauto\/ig:avif\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/06\/fokker-eindecker-aircraft.jpg');background-size:cover;background-position:center;\"><\/span><span style=\"display:block;padding:13px 16px 18px;\"><span style=\"display:block;font-weight:700;font-size:16px;line-height:1.3;color:#1a3a7a;margin-bottom:7px;\">Il combattente<\/span><span style=\"display:block;font-weight:400;font-size:13.5px;line-height:1.45;color:#555;\">La centenaria ricerca del controllo dell&#039;aria<\/span><\/span><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/folkestone-gotha-raid-1917-strategic-bombing\/\" style=\"flex:0 0 264px;scroll-snap-align:start;display:block;text-decoration:none;border:1px solid #d8d8d8;background:#fff;border-radius:0;overflow:hidden;font-family:Montserrat,Arial,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"display:block;width:100%;height:150px;background-image:url('https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:0e0_.b970\/w:768\/h:942\/q:mauto\/ig:avif\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/06\/zeppelin-staaken-r-vi-giant-bomber.jpg');background-size:cover;background-position:center;\"><\/span><span style=\"display:block;padding:13px 16px 18px;\"><span style=\"display:block;font-weight:700;font-size:16px;line-height:1.3;color:#1a3a7a;margin-bottom:7px;\">Folkestone, 1917<\/span><span style=\"display:block;font-weight:400;font-size:13.5px;line-height:1.45;color:#555;\">Il giorno in cui nacque il bombardamento strategico<\/span><\/span><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/guided-missiles-precision-weapons-history\/\" style=\"flex:0 0 264px;scroll-snap-align:start;display:block;text-decoration:none;border:1px solid #d8d8d8;background:#fff;border-radius:0;overflow:hidden;font-family:Montserrat,Arial,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"display:block;width:100%;height:150px;background-image:url('https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:0e0_.b970\/w:768\/h:510\/q:mauto\/ig:avif\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/06\/fritz-x-first-guided-bomb.jpg');background-size:cover;background-position:center;\"><\/span><span style=\"display:block;padding:13px 16px 18px;\"><span style=\"display:block;font-weight:700;font-size:16px;line-height:1.3;color:#1a3a7a;margin-bottom:7px;\">La rivoluzione della precisione<\/span><span style=\"display:block;font-weight:400;font-size:13.5px;line-height:1.45;color:#555;\">Quando bombe e missili impararono a puntare da soli<\/span><\/span><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/electronic-warfare-aviation-history\/\" style=\"flex:0 0 264px;scroll-snap-align:start;display:block;text-decoration:none;border:1px solid #d8d8d8;background:#fff;border-radius:0;overflow:hidden;font-family:Montserrat,Arial,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"display:block;width:100%;height:150px;background-image:url('https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:0e0_.b970\/w:768\/h:614\/q:mauto\/ig:avif\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/06\/ea-18g-growler-electronic-warfare.jpg');background-size:cover;background-position:center;\"><\/span><span style=\"display:block;padding:13px 16px 18px;\"><span style=\"display:block;font-weight:700;font-size:16px;line-height:1.3;color:#1a3a7a;margin-bottom:7px;\">La guerra dei maghi<\/span><span style=\"display:block;font-weight:400;font-size:13.5px;line-height:1.45;color:#555;\">Come la guerra elettronica ha imparato ad accecare il nemico<\/span><\/span><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/military-satellites-space-reconnaissance-history\/\" style=\"flex:0 0 264px;scroll-snap-align:start;display:block;text-decoration:none;border:1px solid #d8d8d8;background:#fff;border-radius:0;overflow:hidden;font-family:Montserrat,Arial,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"display:block;width:100%;height:150px;background-image:url('https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:0e0_.b970\/w:768\/h:768\/q:mauto\/ig:avif\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/06\/reconnaissance-satellite-in-orbit.jpg');background-size:cover;background-position:center;\"><\/span><span style=\"display:block;padding:13px 16px 18px;\"><span style=\"display:block;font-weight:700;font-size:16px;line-height:1.3;color:#1a3a7a;margin-bottom:7px;\">Occhi in orbita<\/span><span style=\"display:block;font-weight:400;font-size:13.5px;line-height:1.45;color:#555;\">Come lo spionaggio si \u00e8 spostato nello spazio<\/span><\/span><\/a><div style=\"flex:0 0 264px;scroll-snap-align:start;border:2px solid #5C91FF;background:#fff;border-radius:0;overflow:hidden;font-family:Montserrat,Arial,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"display:block;width:100%;height:150px;background-image:url('https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:0e0_.b970\/w:768\/h:512\/q:mauto\/ig:avif\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/06\/f-117-nighthawk-stealth-fighter.jpg');background-size:cover;background-position:center;\"><\/span><span style=\"display:block;padding:13px 16px 18px;\"><span style=\"display:block;font-size:11px;font-weight:700;letter-spacing:1px;color:#5C91FF;margin-bottom:5px;\">STAI LEGGENDO QUESTO<\/span><span style=\"display:block;font-weight:700;font-size:16px;line-height:1.3;color:#0b2a6b;margin-bottom:7px;\">furtivit\u00e0<\/span><span style=\"display:block;font-weight:400;font-size:13.5px;line-height:1.45;color:#555;\">Come gli aerei hanno imparato a scomparire dai radar<\/span><\/span><\/div><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/military-drone-uav-history\/\" style=\"flex:0 0 264px;scroll-snap-align:start;display:block;text-decoration:none;border:1px solid #d8d8d8;background:#fff;border-radius:0;overflow:hidden;font-family:Montserrat,Arial,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"display:block;width:100%;height:150px;background-image:url('https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:0e0_.b970\/w:768\/h:614\/q:mauto\/ig:avif\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/06\/mq-9-reaper-drone.jpg');background-size:cover;background-position:center;\"><\/span><span style=\"display:block;padding:13px 16px 18px;\"><span style=\"display:block;font-weight:700;font-size:16px;line-height:1.3;color:#1a3a7a;margin-bottom:7px;\">L&#039;ascesa dei droni<\/span><span style=\"display:block;font-weight:400;font-size:13.5px;line-height:1.45;color:#555;\">Guerra senza pilota nella cabina di pilotaggio<\/span><\/span><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/sixth-generation-fighter-jets-race\/\" style=\"flex:0 0 264px;scroll-snap-align:start;display:block;text-decoration:none;border:1px solid #d8d8d8;background:#fff;border-radius:0;overflow:hidden;font-family:Montserrat,Arial,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"display:block;width:100%;height:150px;background-image:url('https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:0e0_.b970\/w:768\/h:512\/q:mauto\/ig:avif\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/06\/sixth-generation-fighter-concept.jpg');background-size:cover;background-position:center;\"><\/span><span style=\"display:block;padding:13px 16px 18px;\"><span style=\"display:block;font-weight:700;font-size:16px;line-height:1.3;color:#1a3a7a;margin-bottom:7px;\">La sesta generazione<\/span><span style=\"display:block;font-weight:400;font-size:13.5px;line-height:1.45;color:#555;\">Quando il caccia impar\u00f2 a volare da solo<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div><\/div><!--\/SERIESCAR--><div style=\"border:1px solid #ddd;margin:34px 0 8px\"><p style=\"margin:0;padding:11px 16px;background:#1a3a7a;color:#fff;font-weight:700;font-size:13px;letter-spacing:.5px\">LETTURE CORRELATE<\/p><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/military-aviation-history-zeppelin-to-sixth-generation\/\" style=\"display:block;padding:13px 16px;color:#1a3a7a;text-decoration:none;font-weight:600;font-size:15px;line-height:1.4;border-bottom:1px solid #e3e3e3\">Wings of War: dagli Zeppelin alla sesta generazione (panoramica della serie)<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/f-117-nighthawk-first-combat-panama-just-cause-1989\/\" style=\"display:block;padding:13px 16px;color:#1a3a7a;text-decoration:none;font-weight:600;font-size:15px;line-height:1.4;border-bottom:1px solid #e3e3e3\">Before Iraq, the Stealth Fighter Bombed Panama<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/b-21-raider-quietly-advances-flight-testing\/\" style=\"display:block;padding:13px 16px;color:#1a3a7a;text-decoration:none;font-weight:600;font-size:15px;line-height:1.4;border-bottom:1px solid #e3e3e3\">B-21 Raider Quietly Advances in Flight Testing<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/folkestone-gotha-raid-1917-strategic-bombing\/\" style=\"display:block;padding:13px 16px;color:#1a3a7a;text-decoration:none;font-weight:600;font-size:15px;line-height:1.4\">Folkestone, 1917: Il giorno in cui la guerra arriv\u00f2 nei negozi<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Part of Wings of War &mdash; From Zeppelin to Sixth Generation, our series on the great turning points of military aviation. 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