The UK's ability to conduct deployed operations with BAE Systems' Harrier GR9/9A ground-attack aircraft has moved a step closer to reality, with the type having achieved its formal in-service date ...

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.

A tactical datalink is a priority for the UK's upgraded BAE Systems/Boeing Harrier GR9/9A, which will become the common aircraft in Royal Air Force and Royal Navy Joint Force Harrier (JFH) squadrons ...

LONDON, Oct. 15 (UPI) -- An updated version of the venerable Harrier jump jet is being deployed to British air force and navy units. The Defense Ministry announced late last week that the upgraded GR9 ...

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 ...

October 11, 2006 An upgraded version of the iconic Vertical Take-Off and Landing (VTOL) Harrier GR9 aircraft has entered service with the United Kingdom’s Royal Navy and Royal Air Force after a GBP500 ...

HARLOW, England , Dec. 10, 2008 /PRNewswire/ -- Raytheon Company's (NYSE: RTN) Paveway IV weapon system completed all evaluation activities, clearing it to enter service with the U.K.'s Royal Navy and ...

Britain is planning to deploy the latest version of its Harrier ground-attack aircraft, the GR9, for combat operations for the first time in early 2007 to Afghanistan. There is also the growing ...

THE maiden flight of the first Harrier GR9 was successfully completed from Warton aerodrome, near Preston, said BAE Systems, which is developing the plane for the Ministry of Defence. After taking off ...

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.

June 30, 2009: Britain is withdrawing the last of its Harrier vertical takeoff jets from Afghanistan. These aircraft, which can also hover, have been in Afghanistan for five years, flying over 8,500 ...

AN RAF Harrier jet was forced to make an emergency landing yesterday after the aircraft's canopy smashed during mid-flight refuelling. The fighter diverted to Durham Tees Valley Airport after its ...