The Harrier Jump Jet, a VTOL attack jet developed in the 1960s, remained a dominant force in V/STOL fighter aircraft for an ...
Nottinghamshire played a key role in developing the Harrier jump jet, which came into British military service in 1969 The 50th anniversary of a revolutionary aircraft has been marked at an event ...
While fighter jets are iconic symbols of aviation and critical military assets, not all have been successful. This article ...
22,000 pounds of thrust enable the Harrier II to hover like a helicopter, and then blast forward like a jet at near-supersonic ... 35B Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter.
They can land vertically, similar to the Harrier Jump Jet, but the four fighters landing in Norfolk used the runway. Earlier Air Commodore David Bradshaw said: "The reason we are not going to land ...
The F-35 is designed to replace aging fighter inventories including U.S. Air Force A-10s and F-16s, U.S. Navy F/A-18s, U.S. Marine Corps AV-8B Harriers and F/A-18s, and U.K. Harrier GR.7s and Sea ...
The problem, of course, is that European industry does not have any STVOL fighter aircraft. Only the F-35B manufactured in ...