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Stunning Footage Of Harrier Released
US Marine AV-8B Harrier jet pilots practice short takeoffs and vertical landings aboard the amphibious assault ship USS Bonhomme Richard.
The AV-8B Harrier II or Harrier GR.5 (English designation) is the second generation of the Hawker Siddeley Harrier. Its development was initiated in the late 1970s by the United States, soon joined by the United Kingdom who had designed the initial version.
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The US Navy launched the Boeing X-32 program in the early 1990s to replace it, but the Pentagon decided to abandon it in favour of developing a multirole combat aircraft, the F-35 Lightning II.
An AV-8B Harrier, assigned to Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron (VMM) 265, prepares to take off from the flight deck of the forward-deployed amphibious assault ship USS Bonhomme Richard (LHD 6) as a part of flight deck certification.
Bonhomme Richard is currently deployed in the U.S. 7th Fleet area of operations.
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