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 ...

One of Britain’s senior Royal Air Force commanders has rebutted suggestions that retiring the Harrier GR9 will damage the ability to regenerate skills to operate the new F-35C variant of the Joint ...

Two crew members were forced to eject when a Royal Air Force BAE Systems Harrier trainer crashed on the runway at Akrotiri air base in Cyprus on 9 February. The UK Ministry of Defence says the ...

More than four decades of aviation history came to an end on 15 December, when the UK flew its last operational sorties with the vertical/short take-off and vertical landing Harrier. First fielded by ...

ORLANDO, Fla., Feb. 26 (UPI) -- Britain's Ministry of Defense has issued an urgent supply order for new U.S.-built targeting pods for its GR9 Harrier jets. Lockheed Martin's Florida unit said in a ...

We knew it was only a matter of time until people started talking about the contested Falkland Islands in the wake of Britain's decision last month to retire its Harrier jump jets, a move that will ...

The Harrier made its final flight with the British RAF last week, marking an end to the jet famous for being able to take off and land vertically. The jet's recently declassified flight manual shows ...

On Oct. 27, 2011, with a ceremony at Grottaglie airbase, near Taranto, the Marina Militare (Italian Navy) celebrates the 20th anniversary of the Harrier in Italian service. The AV-8B+ Harriers of the ...

An active RFID system is being tested by the U.K.’s Royal Air Force to see if the technology can help cut costs and streamline maintenance operations for Harrier jump jets. U.K.-based defense and ...

(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 ...