The McDonnell Douglas (now Boeing) AV-8B Harrier II is a single-engine ground-attack aircraft that constitutes the second generation of the Harrier Jump Jet family. Capable of vertical or short takeoff and landing (V/STOL) the aircraft was designed in the late 1970s as an Anglo-American development of the British Hawker Siddeley Harrier the first operational V/STOL aircraft.
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British Aerospace, McDonnell Douglas, Boeing, BAE Systems