The F-35B is the most advanced STOVL fighter jet and is 'the' 5th-gen fighter of warships smaller than US Navy supercarriers.

The AV-8B, built in St. Louis, Missouri, first flew in 1981, and over 340 Harrier IIs were built. For more than three decades, the AV-8B Harrier has been a workhorse of the US Marine Corps.

The Harrier Jump Jet made its first flight on this day in history, August 31, 1966. The warplane is known for its ability to take off vertically and hover like a helicopter. Fox News Media ...

To this day, only a handful of vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) ... Designed in the 1960s, the Yak-38 looked much like the British Harrier "jump-jet" (more on that in a minute) ...

Lockheed Martin has revealed that an F-35B fighter jet made its first vertical takeoff on May 10 at Naval Air Station ... which has ordered 340 to replace the F/A 18 Hornet and the AV8 Harrier, ...

March 24, 2009: The Harrier vertical take-off fighter-bomber appears to be on its way to being another of those warplanes that will serve for half a century. The Harrier was developed jointly by U.S.

The Harrier is renowned for being the Cold War’s only truly successful vertical/short takeoff or landing (VSTOL) aircraft. Attempting to copy its revolutionary design, the Soviet Union ...

Pilots defend Harrier jet By . Mark Oliva. ... Marine Lt. Col. Rob Kuckuk of Marine Attack Squadron 214, the Black Sheep Squadron, stands before an AV-8B Harrier at Kadena Air Base.

As an "interested observer" of military aviation, I beg to differ with your Jan. 9 editorial, "Justify Harrier or Drop It," on the AV-8 Harrier jet.

(Technically, the F-35B is a "short takeoff vertical landing," or STOVL jet, but it fits into largely the same role.) The F-35B can still have takeoff trouble, like the one that crashed while ...

Harrier Jump Jets are pretty awesome to see in action. That vertical take-off capability was enough to make any red-blooded American student in the 1990s join the Marine Corps just to get behind ...

I am fascinated by ideas that seem impossible. A vacuum without a bag. A bridge without supports. A jet that jumps into the air. We've actually got one of those sitting in the car park of Dyson's ...