The AV-8B Harrier, known informally as the Harrier jump jet, is the latest iteration in a series of VSTOL aircraft that was ...

The Harrier was a flexible, adaptable fighter-bomber that gave the Marines a rugged and reliable support platform but the landscape of modern warfare has changed and the iconic jump-jet has become ...

The Marines have reactivated a fighter squadron with a lineage ... all variants of the F-35 by 2030, phasing out aircraft ...

allowing Marines to be supported in austere conditions in expeditionary environments. 22,000 pounds of thrust enable the Harrier II to hover like a helicopter, and then blast forward like a jet at ...

The Pima Air & Space Museum in Tucson, Arizona, offers visitors a remarkable immersion into the history of flight.

The F-35B Lightning II is the Marine Corps ... generation aircraft have a higher radar cross-section, which means they can more easily be seen by enemy fighters. A 5th generation fighter has ...

By the time the U.S. deployed its Air Force against the North Vietnamese, several of its fighter aircraft, like the F-4 Phantom II, were already jet-powered. As the years have gone by, more technology ...

Don’t forget about the use of two old U.S. Marine Corps Harrier jets to test bombs at the Chocolate Mountain test range 25 miles north of the border with Mexico. That exercise was a signal to ...

The F-35 is to replace most other fighter and ground attack aircraft, including the F-16, F-18, and A-10, as well as tthe Harrier "jump-jet" under the command of the Marine Corps. If you want an ...