Aircraft useful against insurgents and low-intensity conflicts are not necessarily the same as those useful against a peer-on ...
The United States Marine Corps will retire the last of its McDonnell Douglas AV-8B+ Harrier II fighters in just under two ...
The F-35B is the short take-off and vertical landing (STOVL) variant designed for smaller aircraft carriers and the Marines' ...
None of the F-35 variants met their readiness goals over a six-year period despite billions of dollars, a US government ...
Matt in one of his favourite aircraft. When you’ve flown 52 different aircraft types (and counting), you often get asked what ...
Its development directly influenced the design of the first-generation Harrier, known as the Harrier GR1, which entered service with the Royal Air Force on April 1 ... inspire future generations, ...
The “Joint Strike Fighter” was initially designed to replace the U.S. Marine Corps’ F/A-18 and AV-8B Harrier, the U.S. Navy’s F/A-18, and the U.S. Air Force’s A-10 and F-16 airframes.
When the British unveiled the Harrier GR.1 in 1967 – a “jump jet” capable ... An attorney, pilot, guitarist, and minor pro hockey player, Harrison joined the US Air Force as a Pilot Trainee but was ...
The successful completion of the initial flight testing is a further step towards deploying the LITENING pod to the fleet.
In Afghanistan, I was thrown into a world beyond my emotional understanding, writing, filming and taking one step after another. I was trying to comprehend this strange world of constant battle on the ...
AVM Monahan joins the service after a decorated career as a fast jet fighter pilot and senior leader in the Royal Air Force ...
In the largest air-to-air engagement in 50 years, Air Force fighter crews shot down hundreds of Iranian drones.