The Hawker Harrier is the first operational Vertical/Short Takeoff and Landing (V/STOL) ground-attack fighter aircraft produced by the British aerospace ... range air-to-air missiles and AIM ...

Designed in the 1960s, the Yak-38 looked much like the British Harrier "jump-jet" (more on that in a minute ... including its helmet-mounted missile aiming system. Sadly (for Yakolev) the end ...

Perhaps the greatest difference between the British Harrier and its Soviet counterpart ... first time a Yak-38 intercepted U.S. aircraft while armed with missiles. The Soviet jet soon underwent ...

The Harrier II is unique among American military aircraft as one of few to have been adapted from a foreign design. The AV-8B’s origin traces back to the British ... air-to-air missiles and ...

Retired Marine Corps Maj. Gen. Marty Post, who serves as an executive officer for the Arizona Commemorative Air Force Museum, ...

The United Kingdom's defense ministry said Thursday that a Russian fighter jet malfunctioned and fired a missile near a British spy plane over the Black Sea last month. "We don't consider this a ...

A Russian fighter jet fired a missile near an unarmed British aircraft patrolling in international airspace over the Black Sea, in what UK Defense Minister Ben Wallace described as a ...

Britain’s Ministry of Supply released the first films of British ... missile reaches top speed. The missile then cuts in its second power supply (top right) and races on to meet the target aircraft.

LONDON — A Russian fighter jet “released a missile” in the vicinity of an unarmed British surveillance plane, the U.K.’s defense minister said Thursday. Ben Wallace told lawmakers in the ...

Britain's defense secretary revealed Thursday that a Russian fighter jet released a missile ... One of the fighter jets "released a missile in the vicinity of" the British plane beyond visual ...