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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

Impressive machines, to be sure. But the pride and joy of Nalls’ fleet are two British Sea Harrier jets – one a single-seat FA.2 and a much rarer two-seater TMk-8. According to Nalls ...

The British Aerospace Sea Harrier FRS1 entered service with the Royal Navy in April 1980, during an era in which most naval and land-based air superiority fighters were large and supersonic. The ...

The Harrier made its final flight with the British RAF last week ... In 1982, the Harrier concept first saw major active duty as the Sea Harrier in the Falklands Island War.

Thousands of people have flocked to Culpeper Regional Airport in rural Virginia to witness the spectacle of Sea Harrier ... The British firm Hawker Siddeley made Harrier prototypes in the late ...