The last of the Marine Corps’ venerable AV-8B Harrier II fighter jets will be retired in June, to be replaced by the F-35B. For more than 41 years, since January 1985, the US Marine Corps has operated ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The U.S. Marine Corps this week celebrated the retirement of the AV-8B Harrier II, the fighter jet that can take off and land ...

With VSTOL capabilities way ahead of their time, the AV-8B II Harrier "Jump Jet" will go down in history as one of the Marine Corps' most legendary aircraft.

The Harrier Jump Jet turned vertical takeoff and landing from a long-running engineering dream into a real combat aircraft.

U.S. Marine Corps AV-8B Harrier II jet at a sunset ceremony for the historic fleet at Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point (Lance Cpl. Bryan Giraldo). For an aircraft that's seen its share of ...

Last month, the American Marine Corps retired its 55-year-old AV-8B Harrier II Jump Jets, whose four rotating jet engine nozzles allowed it to hover and take off or land vertically. That allowed the ...

The legendary "jump jet" has officially retired. See how the US Marine Corps is moving from the Harrier era to the F-35B.

I remember when I first saw images of an AV-8B Harrier jump jet landing on the deck of some ship lost in the surrounding water. I was just a kid with a passion for military hardware, but I was so ...

An AV-8B II Harrier "Jump Jet" taking off from a runway - Jose Gil/Shutterstock Certain attributes can lift an aircraft from being just another airplane to attaining legendary status. Take the ...

The U.S. Marine Corps this week celebrated the retirement of the AV-8B Harrier II, the fighter jet that can take off and land vertically and without a runway. In a "sundown" ceremony on Wednesday at ...