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Recent reports about the Spanish Navy's plans to build its first aircraft carrier with CATOBAR fighters, a ship that would take the French aircraft carrier "Charles de Gaulle" R-91 as a reference, ...
Retiring the Harrier was an economic decision. Britain faced a £38 billion defense budget shortfall and couldn't cancel its new carriers. Something had to go.
On the morning of June 10, a flight of three historic U.S. Marine Corps AV-8B Harrier II aircraft lifted off on their final ...
The Marine Corps is in the process of retiring the AV-8B Harrier, which is designed for short takeoffs and vertical landings.
Designed to resemble the turbines of the Harrier jump jet's Rolls-Royce Pegasus engine, the watch is limited to 500 pieces and is priced at £350.
With all deference to the original manufacturers of the jump jet, their Harrier is a shadow of the living bird. Of our three harrier species — Montagu’s, marsh and hen — the last breeds most ...
A high-speed jet that can land horizontally and vertically is calling it a career and will be on display at an aviation museum in Mesa. The aircraft, known as a Jump Jet, can take off vertically ...
The Marines are phasing out the older Harrier jets in favor of the newer fifth-generation F-35 stealth fighters.
Amid ongoing changes to the Corps, the North Carolina-based Marine Attack Squadron 231 will be renamed "Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 231." The squadron, identified as the service's oldest flying ...
In its statement on changes to VMA-231, the Marine Corps said "the squadron's transition from the legacy AV-8B Harrier II to the F-35B Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter is representative of 2nd MAW's ...