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 ...

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 ...

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 UK Ministry of Defence is to extend its detachment of six BAE Systems Harrier GR7A ground-attack aircraft at Kandahar in southern Afghanistan until at least 31 March 2007, overturning a plan to ...

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 ...

LONDON - The United Kingdom Ministry of Defence (MOD) has awarded BAE Systems a 150 million pound ($240 million) follow-on contract to continue modernizing and sustaining the U.K.'s Joint Force ...

Here’s What You Need to Know: A British general fought … and failed. The United Kingdom’s 2010 Strategic Defense and Security Review—a budget drill, really—imposed devastating cuts to what had been ...

The first Harrier was built by British manufacturers in the 1960s, as a fighter-bomber jet. Also known as a 'Harrier jump jet', versions of this aircraft have been used by the Royal Air Force and the ...

Feel the power of a British Royal Air Force F-35B's full afterburner takeoff at MCAS Beaufort in South Carolina. (Jeff Martin/Staff) MARINE AIR STATION BEAUFORT, S.C. — At a U.S. Marine Corps base in ...

On Aug. 7, 2019 two former Royal Navy Sea Harrier fighter jets were registered in British Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) record book, gaining their civil registrations. According to Scramble Magazine, ...