2023年7月21日 · poll poll McDonnell Douglas AV-8B Harrier II Description <details><summary>Spoiler</summary>Seeking to anticipate an RAF and USMC requirement for a Harrier follow-on even as the aircraft was entering service, Hawker Siddeley and McDonnell Douglas joined forces to consider a new airframe, while Rolls-Royce paired up with Pratt & Whitney in engine development. Using as their basis earlier P.1184 ...

2023年6月28日 · AV-8B Plus preparing to take off from USS Peleliu at night. The Harrier force was unlucky not to be able to field the more advanced AV-8B Harrier II Plus in the war, since the radar-equipped Harrier might have proved more versatile and might have silenced some of the critics, although all USMC fast jets in Desert Storm were used almost exclusively in the air-to-ground role, principally by day.

2024年8月18日 · poll poll McDonnell Douglas AV-8B Harrier II Description Spoiler Seeking to anticipate an RAF and USMC requirement for a Harrier follow-on even as the aircraft was entering service, Hawker Siddeley and McDonnell Douglas joined forces to consider a new airframe, while Rolls-Royce paired up with Pratt & Whitney in engine development. Using as ...

2024年12月23日 · " The AV-8B Harrier II was developed by McDonnell Douglas (later merged into Boeing) in collaboration with the British Aerospace (BAe) company. The aircraft is an evolution of the earlier Hawker Siddeley Harrier, a British design. While the original Harrier was developed solely by Hawker Siddeley (which became part of BAe), the AV-8B was a ...

2024年1月10日 · FA2 holds the advantage with the much better radar and I think volume of missiles… (i cant recall if AV-8B+ can run 4x Aim-9M and 2x AMRAAM like the FA2 can. Or if its 2x Aim-9M and 2x AMRAAM) Av-8B+ holds the advantage with turn performance and A2G loadout, as well as CM count. I think radar though will be the greatest advantage though.

2023年9月24日 · The Harrier II was an Anglicised version of the AV-8B, British Aerospace producing the aircraft as the prime contractor, with McDonnell Douglas serving as a sub-contractor; final assembly work was performed at Dunsfold England The first prototype flew in 1981, first BAe-built development GR5 flew for the first time on 30 April 1985 and the ...

2024年7月20日 · poll BAe Harrier GR.5 Hello! and welcome to my suggestion for the the often overlooked First Second generation Harrier in RAF service, the Harrier GR.5, I feel this could come to help bridge the gap between the Jaguars and Harrier GR.7 in the British Tech Tree and to represent on often sorely underrated variant of the Harrier. History <details><summary>Spoiler</summary>Development of an ...

2023年10月12日 · The radar-equipped Harrier II project started off as a private venture by BAE, McDonnell Douglas et. al in 1987 and wasn’t until 1990 that Spain, Italy and USMC actually signed up to pursue production of this variant, with the first flight in Sept 1992.

2024年1月22日 · poll Description: The TAV8B Plus II is the two seat trainer variant of the AV8B PLUS II. In the Italian navy, the AV8b started it’s story back in the 1991 when the Italian navy was finally able to purchase a total of 18 AV8B for the aircraft carrier Giuseppe Garibaldi, after a lot of discussion and conflict with the Italian air force. The first two units delivered were the …

2024年5月26日 · The fact that the US still lacks any variant of the AV-8B after such an extend period (The GR.7 Harrier, the British counterpart to the B+(NA) was added going on 9 updates (Drone age, 14th of September 2022) ago, and the Italian AV-8B+ (Sons of Attila 19th of September 2023) going on 4 major updates) is also quite odd.