22,000 pounds of thrust enable the Harrier II to hover like a helicopter, and then blast forward like a jet at near-supersonic speeds. Like every aircraft in the Marine fleet, this aircraft is ...

The Harrier BuNo 165574, a vertical/short takeoff and landing fighter, first entered service in the Marine Corps in January 1986 and in July 2001 was remanufactured as an AV-8B II+ radar aircraft.

The F-35 will replace AV-8B Harrier IIs in the Marine Corps inventory ... conventionally from longer runways on major bases. F-35B aircraft have been delivered to the U.S. Marines and the U.K ...