Marine Harrier plane arrives at Great Park restoration hangar for future aviation museum
Once complete, the Flying Leatherneck Aviation Museum will showcase more than 40 aircraft from military history.
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Trump’s War on Mexico’s Drug Cartels May Be the Harrier Jump Jet’s Final Mission
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.
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Why America Loves the Powerful But Dangerous AV-8B Harrier
The other factor may be the Harrier’s home with the U.S. Marine Corps, the smallest and most niche of attack-aircraft-operating-service branches. The closest the Harrier ever came to widespread ...
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Tarawa/Wasp Class Amphibious Assault Ship
Aircraft: 12 CH-46 Sea Knight helicopters; 4 CH-53E Sea Stallion helicopters; 6 AV-8B Harrier attack aircraft; 3 UH-1N Huey helicopters; 4 AH-1W Super Cobra helicopters Landing/Attack Craft ...
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Yak-38: The Russia's Struggle to Match the Harrier was a Nightmare
the United Kingdom introduced the Harrier, its jet-powered attack airframe capable of vertical/short-takeoff and landing operations, or V/STOL. The USSR wanted its own jump jet, and developed the ...
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Arizona Museum Becomes New Home for Retired Marine Corps AV-8B Harrier
The Pima Air & Space Museum is the new home of a retired and demilitarized U.S. Marine Corps AV-8B Harrier II+. The light attack jet was inducted into the Tucson, Arizona, museum Friday ...
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AV-8B Harrier II
Joint Direct Attack Munitions Speed: 550 kts Range: 900 nm The AV-8B Harrier II is the U.S. military’s only short takeoff, vertical landing jet aircraft in current inventory. Originally flown in ...