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 ...