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SlashGear5 个月
Where Was The Legendary Harrier Jump Jet Made And Who Made It?
Today, the Marine Corps is slowly replacing its Harrier fleet with the newer F-35 Lightning II fighter jets, with other operators expected to the same. Even the Royal Air Force and Royal Navy ...
Flightglobal19 年
Hover and out: UK Royal Navy retires the Sea Harrier
The UK Royal Navy will mourn the retirement of its last Sea Harrier fighters this week, but its Fleet Air Arm is far from finished as a fast-jet power Twenty-four years after gaining legendary ...
BBC14 年
Harrier jump jets make final flight from RAF Cottesmore
The government's strategic defence and security review (SDSR) outlined the decision to scrap the Joint Force Harrier jet, which served the RAF and Royal Navy. Last month, a formation of Harriers ...
Los Angeles Times22 年
Far From Battlefield, Marines Lose One-Third of Harrier Fleet
when defending the Harrier’s record, tend to point back two decades to another nation’s conflict. In Britain’s Falkland Islands War with Argentina, Royal Navy Sea Harriers won a nation’s ...
SlashGear1 年
Why The Legendary Harrier II Jet Was Retired By The RAF
as Royal Navy aircraft carriers (such as the HMS Ark Royal, Ocean, and Illustrious) were also being considered. It's hard for those in the United States to comprehend the Harrier's importance to ...
How Does The F-35 Lightning II Take Off, And Land Vertically And How Does It Differ From ...
The F-35 Lightning II isn't the first jet with hovering capabilities the military has used, but it does accomplish this ...
Flightglobal21 年
Royal Navy Sea Harrier squadron stands down
Transformation of the UK's Joint Force Harrier fleet began in earnest last week, when the first of the Royal Navy's three squadrons of British Aerospace Sea Harrier FA2 fighters was decommissioned ...
The Aviationist12 年
Harrier: The Story Of The “Jump Jet” That Helped Margaret Thatcher Win The Falklands War
In the RAF, Harrier did not play a role of a frontline fighter, it was rather a CAS aircraft which did not need runways to operate. However, changes were to come, as the Royal Navy did not have ...
BBC UK News22 年
Hero pilot killed in Harrier crash
A decorated pilot described as a legend in the Royal Navy has died after his Sea Harrier jet crashed on take-off at RAF Wittering in Cambridgeshire. Commander Martin London, 43, was killed after he ...
The Aviationist11 个月
Royal Navy’s 809 Naval Air Squadron Completes First F-35 Flight
which unified the Harrier squadrons of the Royal Air Force and the Royal Navy into a single command structure. This development was the culmination of years of increasing coordination between the ...
The National Interest1 年
The Sea Harrier Is One of the Best Fighter Jets Ever
My justification for including the Sea Harrier on a Top 5 list years back – to the exclusion of the F-4 Phantom and the Sukhoi Su-27 Flanker – was the plane’s incredible 23:0 air-to-air kill ...