The Harrier II jump jet was a legendary military aircraft heavily utilized by the RAF. However, the U.K. government pulled ...

Spain plans to build a CATOBAR aircraft carrier and convert current ships for drones, but defense budget constraints cast ...

The helicopter carrier is a much smaller type of aircraft carrier that doesn't typically carry jets unless they have vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) capabilities, like the Harrier. Indeed ...

Italian AV8 Harrier aircraft are pictured on the Italian aircraft carrier Giuseppe Garibaldi during the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) operation codenamed "Unified Protectors" on June ...

Carrier-based aircraft typically need a rolling start, aided by a catapult or ski ramp, to get airborne, though some aircraft such as the Harrier or F-35B Joint Strike Fighter can take off vertically.

The carrier's Hawker Siddeley Harrier GR3s flew from the carrier to keep the Argentinian Air Force at bay throughout the conflict. This made the Hermes one of the most important aircraft carriers ...

Other naval experts simply refer to the Harrier and Lightning carriers as “light carriers.” A Lightning carrier would embark between 16 and 20 F-35s, compared to the roughly 40 strike fighters ...

At the same time, the British government decided to immediately ax the joint RAF/Royal Navy Harrier GR9 force and decommission the aircraft carrier Ark Royal, leaving Britain without a maritime ...

This marked the first official time a fixed wing aircraft had made a bow-on, downwind landing aboard a US Navy fixed-wing carrier. Launching the Harrier off of the carrier was facilitated by a ...

The result, the Yak-38, was introduced in 1976 — three years before the British navy's Sea Harrier entered service — as the Soviet Union's first fixed-wing aircraft for its first true aircraft ...

According to The Diplomat, Thailand's AV-8S Matador (Harrier) accompanying jet fleet was withdrawn from service in 2006, leaving Bangkok with an aircraft carrier without aircraft.

STVOL Harrier II Plus fighters aboard the aircraft carrier "Juan Carlos I" L-61 of the Spanish Navy (Photo: Elentir). The ...