The SHAR was a truly multi role aircraft that could perform air-to-air combat and ground attack and reconnaissance. First air-to-air engagement took place on the morning of May 1, 1982. Known by ...

After the initial inconclusive engagements between British Sea Harriers and Argentine Mirages and Daggers, Argentine leadership launched a major effort against what they believed was an amphibious ...

On May 1st, 1982—the opening day of Britain’s campaign to retake the Falkland Islands - the skies lit up with one of the most intense air combat days of the war. This video covers the final and ...

British Rolls-Royce started its VTOL experiments ... Harrier would be a perfect means for providing cover to the Royal Navy. This is when Sea Harrier was created. It was basically a Harrier ...

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 ...

The Sea Harrier's quirky looks and combat effectiveness ... the Sea Harriers more than held their own as the first line British defence against the Mirage's devastating Exocet anti-ship missiles.

A carrier-based version, the Sea Harrier, made global headlines for the Royal Air Force during the Falklands War with Argentina in 1982. The British warplanes shot down 20 Argentinian fighters ...

Not long before the UK Royal Navy decommissioned the last British Aerospace Sea Harrier in March 2006, Maryland resident and aircraft mechanic Christian Vlahos received a phone call from a close ...

the gunmetal-grey Sea Harrier remains a thing of beauty. The British-built jet, once a potent symbol of this country’s technological prowess, now startles the neighbours and the local Cessna ...