The trouble you have when describing the Harrier is that people immediately assume that you are trying to mount a defence of ...

900 nm The AV-8B Harrier II is the U.S. military’s only short takeoff, vertical landing jet aircraft in current inventory. Originally flown in the late 1960s, the Harrier has undergone a series ...

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 ...

The Hawker Harrier is the first operational Vertical/Short Takeoff and Landing (V/STOL) ground-attack fighter aircraft ...

I was fortunate to see a Harrier perform at the Oregon Air Show about ten years ago. The noise of the aircraft, while performing vertical or short take-off and landing (VSTOL) operations ...

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 ...

6 AV-8B Harrier attack aircraft; 3 UH-1N Huey helicopters; 4 AH-1W Super Cobra helicopters Landing/Attack Craft: 3 LCACs or 2 LCUs. Tarawa Class: Builder: Ingalls Shipbuilding Service ...

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 ...