On Dec. 15, 2010, sixteen Harriers took off from RAF Cottesmore for a farewell formation flight marking the end to 41 years of British Harrier operations. Originally scheduled to remain in service ...

The AV-8B Harrier II was as much a “star” of the 1994 film True Lies as Arnold Schwarzenegger or Jamie Lee Curtis – and it also was the aircraft that literally saved humanity in the lackluster 2000 ...

The small and nimble FRS.1 Sea Harrier defied the prevailing logic of the 1970s and 1980s, in which air forces competed to build bigger and faster fighter jets. The Hawker Siddeley Sea Harrier FRS.1 ...

American and Soviet pilots alike had their jaws hit the floor the first time they saw the British Hawker Siddeley Harrier take to the sky as if by magic back in the late 1960s. Though on paper, the ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain has agreed a $180 million (116 million pounds) deal to sell 72 retired Harrier aircraft to the U.S. Marine Corps for use as spare parts, a British minister said on Thursday.

The UK Ministry of Defence is investigating the cause of an accident in which the pilot of a BAE Systems Harrier GR9A was forced to eject from the aircraft while attempting to land at Afghanistan's ...

KABUL (Reuters) - A British Harrier fighter jet crashed in southern Afghanistan Thursday, injuring the pilot, NATO said. The alliance said in a statement that the aircraft had made an emergency ...

The Yak-38 was the Soviet Union’s attempt to rival the British Harrier in vertical flight. Unlike its Western counterpart, it suffered from limited range, poor weapon systems, and frequent crashes.