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How the AV-8B Harrier “Jump Jet” Paved the Way for the F-35
The AV-8B Harrier, known informally as the Harrier jump jet, is the latest iteration in a series of VSTOL aircraft that was ...
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Final Marine Harrier pilots finish training, set to join last squadron
The final flight assessment - conducted by the AV-8B Harrier II Fleet Replacement Detachment, Marine Aircraft Group 14, 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing - was a low-altitude, close-training sortie ...
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Marine Harrier plane arrives at Great Park restoration hangar for future aviation museum
A storied AV-8B Harrier — a fighter plane that can lift off vertically — is the most recent historical aircraft delivered to an old Marine Corps Airstation El Toro hangar at the Irvine Great ...
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AV-8B Harrier II
22,000 pounds of thrust enable the Harrier II to hover like a helicopter, and then blast forward like a jet at near-supersonic speeds. Like every aircraft in the Marine fleet, this aircraft is ...
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How The F-35 Lightning II Compares To The F22 Raptor Jet
as well as tthe Harrier "jump-jet" under the command of the Marine Corps. If you want an enemy aircraft destroyed right now, the F-22 is the one for the job. If you need a widely capable ...
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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 ... flew more than 3,300 sorties from forward bases and smaller Marine Corps aircraft carriers, dropping a whopping six million pounds of ordnance ...
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F-35B Lightning II
The F-35 will replace AV-8B Harrier IIs in the Marine ... at Eglin Air Force Base. STOVL aircraft are also stationed at the first operational F-35 base, Marine Corps Air Station Yuma, Ariz., ...