The USS Harry S. Truman has had a rough 2025. It lost not one but three F/A-18 Super Hornets — including the one that rolled ...

The Harrier Jump Jet became the world’s first successful vertical takeoff and landing combat aircraft. Built around the revolutionary Pegasus engine, it could hover, take off without runways, and ...

We examined how the Soviet Union attempted to match the Harrier with its own VTOL fighter and why the Yak-38 never lived up ...

Military weapons are often introduced with bold promises like greater efficiency, revolutionary design, and battlefield dominance on paper. But war has a way of stripping those promises down to their ...

Although the title of the world's most lethal fighter jet may still belong to the Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor, the new kid on ...

An aged helicopter fleet and inexperienced pilots from nearby Fort Belvoir had raised “widespread concern” among local pilots ...

The U.S. military has amassed an unusually large force in the Caribbean Sea and the waters off the coast of Venezuela since ...

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.

Government has confirmed that it will permit United States military aircraft to transit local airports in the coming weeks, ...

In this cinematic deep-dive, we revisit the Falklands War’s most bewildering dogfight as Sea Harriers—armed with AIM-9L Sidewinders and vectored[...] ...

The AV-8B Harrier is now nearly retired—but its mission profile will live on in the F-35B Lightning II, which shares many of the same capabilities. The AV-8B Harrier remains one of the most instantly ...