The UK's ability to conduct deployed operations with BAE Systems' Harrier GR9/9A ground-attack aircraft has moved a step closer to reality, with the type having achieved its formal in-service date ...
In 2010, the U.K. government pulled the plug on the Harrier II not because it failed in combat — far from it, as it had some incredible capabilities – but because of cold economics. The Strategic ...
Potential delays to Joint Strike Fighter could see BAE strike aircraft fly beyond 2020 The UK Ministry of Defence is considering a programme to further extend the life of its upgraded BAE Systems ...
Britain is planning to deploy the latest version of its Harrier ground-attack aircraft, the GR9, for combat operations for the first time in early 2007 to Afghanistan. There is also the growing ...
October 11, 2006 An upgraded version of the iconic Vertical Take-Off and Landing (VTOL) Harrier GR9 aircraft has entered service with the United Kingdom’s Royal Navy and Royal Air Force after a GBP500 ...
(Matt Hale) "Although I had spent many years as a photographer staring at countless Harriers," writes Tim McLelland in his new book Harrier, "the aircraft takes on a rather different appearance when ...
It’s the first time British jets land on a British aircraft carrier since the retirement of the Harrier GR9 in 2010 The Operational Test 1, as dubbed on a patch circulating among the carrier’s crew, ...
HARLOW, England , Dec. 10, 2008 /PRNewswire/ -- Raytheon Company's (NYSE: RTN) Paveway IV weapon system completed all evaluation activities, clearing it to enter service with the U.K.'s Royal Navy and ...
Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort received its first international F-35B Tuesday, flown in by the instructor who will lead the British training classes expected to begin later this year. Royal Air ...