Out with old, in with the new for the USMC, but what's the catch?

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 ...

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

The Harrier jump jet, once hailed for rewriting the rules of naval air power, is rapidly disappearing as its last operators confront a historic crossroads. With the U.S. and Italy set to retire their ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 AV-8B Harrier II was as much a “star” of the 1994 film True Lies as Arnold Schwarzenegger or Jamie Lee Curtis – and it also was the aircraft that... Here’s What You Need to Remember: All of these ...

During the 2026 MCAS Cherry Point Air Show, The Aviationist interviewed F-35B pilot Major William Horn about expeditionary operations within the Marine Air-Ground Task Force and the demo for the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...