The Harrier Jump Jet, a VTOL attack jet developed in the 1960s, remained a dominant force in V/STOL fighter aircraft for an ...

There is a recipe for getting the best out of Harrier Jet and it looks like all the ingredients are there for another good performance on Wednesday night. Paul O’Sullivan’s nine-year-old is a ...

Why the Soviet Yak-38 Jump Jet Failed to Compete with the British Harrier As the aviation arms race sped forward during the Cold War, the United Kingdom introduced the Harrier, its jet-powered ...

The Marines also operate around 138 older F/A-18A/C/D Hornets (the Navy has largely replaced its Hornets with Super Hornets).

A Harrier jet today crashed at an airfield, the Ministry of Defence confirmed. The jet, which had two crew on board, went down at RAF Wittering in Cambridgeshire shortly before 9.40am. One pilot ...

22,000 pounds of thrust enable the Harrier II to hover like a helicopter, and then blast forward like a jet at near-supersonic speeds. Like every aircraft in the Marine fleet, this aircraft is ...

Now a test pilot with Britain's main weapons manufacturer, BAE Systems, he has become the first pilot ever to take off and land vertically in a jump jet equipped with the aircraft's unique lift ...

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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 ...

The company released a TV commercial for the promotion that ended with the claim that 7 million points would allow a Harrier fighter jet worth about $23 million to be redeemed. The only problem ...

To be effective against this rebel group, the marines needed to adapt. "We took a Harrier jet and modified it for air defence," Ehrhart tells me. "We loaded it up with missiles and that way were ...