A UK harrier jump jet crashed at Kandahdar Airfield on May 14 but the pilot successfully ejected having avoided another aircraft on the runway while making an emergency landing. The British Ministry ...
The Harrier's slick-sounding name is iconic even to those with just a passing familiarity with combat aircraft. It was the first operational VTOL jet aircraft, using a horizontally mounted turbofan ...
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 ...