In a bold move during the Cold War, British engineers developed a fighter jet that could take off vertically—the Harrier ... Ukrainian forces disrupting Russian advances toward Sumy region ...

The AV-8B Harrier, known informally as the Harrier jump jet, is the latest iteration in a series of VSTOL aircraft that was first developed in the 1960s. Originally manufactured by the UK’s ...

22,000 pounds of thrust enable the Harrier II to hover like a helicopter, and then blast forward like a jet at near-supersonic speeds. Like every aircraft in the Marine fleet, this aircraft is ...

Britain has agreed to buy 150 of the new Joint Strike Fighters to replace the Royal Navy's Harrier Jump Jets. But the £35 million Lockheed Martin planes are 3,300lb overweight, Sunday newspapers ...

Now a test pilot with Britain's main weapons manufacturer, BAE Systems, he has become the first pilot ever to take off and land vertically in a jump jet equipped with the aircraft's unique lift ...