Harriers may not be as advanced as F-35s, but the Marines have found one last mission for them amid Caribbean build-up.

The final class of Marine Corps Harrier mechanics has graduated from training, and later this year the last two Harrier pilots should complete their training, marking the “end of an era” as the ...

The Marine Corps will train the final two new AV-8B Harrier pilots in 2024 as part of a long-term transition to the F-35 Lightning II. The transition from the AV-8B Harrier and F/A-18C/D Hornet jets ...

The Marines will rebrand a squadron as pilots switch to the F-35B Lightning II. The transition from the AV-8B Harrier to the F-35B is part of modernization. The change is part of service-wide plans to ...

This fall, the “Dust Devils” of the Navy’s Air Test and Evaluation Squadron brought the AV-8B Harrier’s decades-long testing ...

CARIBBEAN SEA – U.S. Marine Corps AV-8B Harrier II’s with Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron (VMM) 263 (Reinforced), 22nd ...

CHERRY POINT, N.C. — Officials said a Marine jet crashed in a wooded area in North Carolina, but the pilot ejected from the aircraft and was taken to a hospital. A statement posted to Facebook from ...

BAGRAM, Afghanistan -- The United States has moved Marine Corps attack jets to Afghanistan, the military said Wednesday, replacing carrier-based warplanes in the Arabian Sea that have moved closer to ...

MARINE CORPS AIR STATION FUTENMA, Okinawa – A former Harrier pilot with a Harvard credential took charge Friday of the Marine Corps’ only aircraft wing outside the United States. Maj. Gen. Eric Austin ...

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 literally saved humanity in the lackluster 2000 ...

With the arrest of an ex-Marine Corps Harrier pilot in Australia for possible work with the Chinese military, the possibility that other former U.S. military members are doing so is increasingly ...

The Harrier Jump Jet, a highly innovative warplane that helped solve several operational problems for military planners, made its first flight on this day in history, August 31, 1966. The fighter jet, ...