Farewell to the Harrier

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Originally Posted by FOZ_1983

Royal navy are retiring theirs to. Were relying on the tornado to our jobs for us, but already they are over pushed in afghanistan as the runway is pretty short, where as the harriers had a 95% success rate for missions, the tornado is much less.

Until the F35 comes into active service were pretty much relying on land based aircraft and erm.... the rest of europe!!


Shocking!!

Very shocking, considering the Royal Navy's proud history. For a land based force it almost makes sense to retire it, I mean, what good is a short field capable combat plane if the big cargo birds can't get in to service it? But at sea, with limited budgets and thus small deck ships, its hard to imagine a better choice than the Harrier. I'm sorry to see it go.