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 ...

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 ...

Once the pride of Britain’s RAF and Royal Navy, the now stripped-down Harrier vertical take-off jump jets sit like skeletons in the famous US aircraft ‘Boneyard’ in the Arizona desert. The ...

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 ...

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 ...

TASS/. Reports about the downing of a Ukrainian F-16 fighter jet by Russian air defenses show that the aircraft's reputation belies itself, Major-General Vladimir Popov, who sits on the expert ...