Rockwell's XFV-12 Couldn't Get Off The Ground After witnessing the splendor of the AV-8B Harrier, a fighter jet capable of ...
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.
"We took a Harrier jet and modified it for air defence," Ehrhart tells me. "We loaded it up with missiles and that way were able to respond to their drone attacks." An experienced fighter pilot ...
The Marines also operate around 138 older F/A-18A/C/D Hornets (the Navy has largely replaced its Hornets with Super Hornets).
The problem, of course, is that European industry does not have any STVOL fighter aircraft. Only the F-35B manufactured in ...