Retiring the Harrier was an economic decision. Britain faced a £38 billion defense budget shortfall and couldn't cancel its ...

On the morning of June 10, a flight of three historic U.S. Marine Corps AV-8B Harrier II aircraft lifted off on their final ...

U.S. Marines are mobilizing to Los Angeles to protect federal property amid anti-immigration riots as President Trump's use of National Guard is met with a legal challenge in California.

The F-35 Is Very Popular with the Marines The complete service-wide transition to the F-35 will continue through the decade’s end. While the Marines’ final Harrier IIs won’t be retired until ...

In its statement on changes to VMA-231, the Marine Corps said "the squadron's transition from the legacy AV-8B Harrier II to the F-35B Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter is representative of 2nd ...

A previous version of this story said that Marine Attack Squadron 231 was the first in the Corps to operate the original Hawker-Siddeley AV-8A Harrier. Marine Attack Squadron 513 held that ...

It is worth recalling at this point that the plan to retire the Harrier aircraft of VMA-231 has been taking shape for several months, with the squadron being the last in the Marine Corps to operate ...

Positioned out on the airfield was British Aerospace Hawk T.Mk.1 XX154. This airframe is privately owned but is kept at Old Sarum with BDAC. This was the original pre-production Hawk aircraft (there ...

The Harrier was made in Hawker Siddeley factories in Kingston, near the banks of the River Thames, with final assembly occurring at Dunsfold, some 30 miles southwest of London.

One particular type of technology that interested nations – particularly the United States – was VTOL aircraft that could takeoff and land vertically. This was a relatively new concept, as jet ...

Marines with the 12th Marine Littoral Regiment used a Japanese Self-Defense Force C-2 cargo plane to transport the TPS-80 Ground/Air Task Oriented Radar, or G/ATOR to the island of Yonaguni on ...