The USSR wanted its own jump jet, and developed the Yakovlev Yak-38. The platform was meant to mimic the Harrier, but the Yak-38 did not survive the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Until the Harrier is fully retired by the 2030s, the Trump administration is smart to task these aging but still deadly birds to possibly conduct counter-narcotic operations in Mexico. Last month ...
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.