The L-39 is a Czechoslovakian jet trainer that can also serve in a light ground-attack role. Remember the controversy, in the 1990s, involving Pepsi Cola and an AV-8B Harrier jump jet? Well ...

delivered precision strikes within minutes of a call for help from ground forces—saving many American and allied lives in the process. Many Marines have nicknamed the Harrier “the grunt’s ...

“The precept that Marines in the air should protect Marines on the ground has been central to the Corps’ ethos ever since,” the paper wrote. Enter the Harrier jump jet. First developed for ...

22,000 pounds of thrust enable the Harrier II to hover like a helicopter, and then blast forward like a jet at near-supersonic ... enemies engaged by our ground forces. The AV-8B V/STOL strike ...