"NO ONE EXPECTS THE SPANISH INQUI-" oh wait. Wrong joke. Either way, it'd be like him saying, "That Challenger II tank looks mean! I wonder who fields that bit of kit?! Look at it! It's got a boiling vessel in it for tea! Oh, man. The Brits would love that! We've got to get our hands on some of those tanks!!"
You should check out some footage of what the RAF used to do in air show displays. They hover, fly backwards, and even do a bow, (By dipping their nose), towards the crowd. Was a travesty when Cameron and Osborne decided to scrap them all!!!!
@@mitchellrobledo4660 The F-35B is a complete replacement for the Harrier. That's why it's the only version with the vertical/short take off and landing setup.
There are 3 models of the F35 (a, b, and c) the b model is the one that can hover. STOVL - Short Take Off & Vertical Landing. The AV-8 was an original with the Brits and we licensed it, redid a lot of it, made it bigger (natch) and gave it a bit of extra range. And that's what makes it an AV8B (STOVL)
@@busterdee8228 wasn't allowed to serve at all after I broke my back in school. Not enough to be paralyzed, just enough that I can't carry a heavy pack or jump out of a plane.
There are a lot of videos out there of gear up landings. As a retired fighter pilot I can say it is a tense moment as any deviation in roll or cutting power too high above the ground can result in admitting from a bent jet to spinning and tumbling.
When it comes to gear landing failing, you just have to cross your fingers and wish for the best. The United States marines are the ones that use the harrier. I know the UK has their own several versions of the Harrier as well such as the sea harrier which were used during the Falkland war. Also love the video man!
Love it that he is catching some friendly flack for not knowing the Harrier was originally deigned and produce by the Brits. Here, swiped from Wikipedia ... There are two generations and four main variants of the Harrier family, developed by both UK and US manufacturers: Hawker Siddeley Harrier (first generation) British Aerospace Sea Harrier McDonnell Douglas AV-8B Harrier II (second generation) British Aerospace Harrier II I suspect he will be forgiven .. given .. he is a former Royal Marine .. we feed our Marines crayons to keep them focused .. not sure what the Brits feed theirs
Love to see the 22D Expeditionary Force Marines still out there kicking butt. I was born at Yuma Air Base and grew up around those Marines as a kid. I also got to watch the Force Recon Marines practice amphibious landings on the beach in N.C. at Camp Lejune. Weird things to thank your dad for, lol.
Wait you've never seen The James Bond "The Living Daylights" or Schwarzenegger film "True Lies"? Both with Harrier Jump Jets...And it's a British Jet! 😅
Of course Harrier's can hover! That's what makes them special. I cant believe that a former Royal Marine doesn't know that a former British Navy Harrier "jump Jet" cant hover. You probably don't even realise that they are British, but we sold the whole of our fleet to the US Navy.
Can't blame him, though. It's like being a typist trained to type 60 words a minute while your your co-worker is an archivist trained to sort out all sorts of documents and stuff. Neither of you know what & how you do
Very interesting. Showed it to my husband and he said that maybe the stool, as you called it, might be some something they would have also used for servicing or working on these planes.
The harrier is the aircraft that the brits used to wipe out the Argentinean Air Force in the falklands. Marines used them for their ability to take off from short flight deck giving them CAS abilities from a much smaller ship than a regular aircraft carrier. The F-35c replaced them
I still remember you wanting to watch videos on how missiles work. I don't have any recommendations about the ones they use on planes or ships, but I do have one about ATGMs (anti-tank guided missiles). I think it would be more of your forte since its a boots on the ground weapon. Real engineering is the youtube channel and the title of the video is "The insane engineering of the Javelin". It is a older video, around 2 years old I think.
Out to sea carriers have a net that they set up for any aircraft coming in that has a problem that will prevent them from being able to land normally and have no other option but the boat.
Saw a Harrier pilot forget to adjust his nozzles back after landing. At start of taxiing, he blew chunks of melted Pax River runway while the ground crew shook their heads. Another time, saw a British pilot practicing for an airshow at Quantico. He did a low pass, 'over' rolled it, nearly dropping the tail onto the deck, quickly took out some roll, then pulled out towards the water. At the airshow the next day, he flew through part of a simulated napalm strike, obviously unchastened. You could tell his CO was not in attendance. Loved what that airplane could do.
Think a lot of people learned of the Harrier from True Lies with Arnold which does show some old tech is that is in some cases before its time and then improved years later and is also more accepted as well. Will 100% agree that them Pilots are really impressive on there skill as they make it look easy but that is training for hundreds of hours also the Navy is not going to let someone into expensive tech with out some knowledge on how to fly it as if you break it there ass in getting yelled at as well
Yeah, were had a harrier pilot that thought is was funny to do doughnuts over the runway, he blew up so much asphalt that a dozen of us wound up sweeping 180ft of runway to eliminate the fod he produced.
What happens when you have a gear malfunction? You end up wishing you were in an A-10 that has redundancies to allow you to land with the gear up. As far as video games go, I think another genre you should dabble around in are the vehicle builder games. Games like Trailmakers, Scrap Mechanic, Stormworks, Main Assembly, etc. The reason being is that there's usually workshops on those games where people have uploaded their creations and because it's a huge community, you can find weird and wacky things to nearly perfect replicas (as close as the game will allow.) So you can find people who have made like M4's and M1A1's. Challenger II's and F-22's. IJN Yamato's, USS Iowa's, KMS Bismarck's, and HMS Vanguard's. A-10's and AC-130's in those games that do fire and fly/move and obviously can be destroyed. Not accurately all the time, but I mean, you can have the Yamato get strafed by a flight wing of Angels of Death. It could be fun and interesting to see not only the FPS shooter kind of scene, but the recreation scene of military stuff.
Carrier landings can be vary rough on the landing gear, especially with a heavy load/fuel VTOL is what they call it, "Vertical Take Off and Landing" cant do it with full load of bombs/missles hense the standerd takeoff in the beggining of the vid. Amazing plane been around for awhile, Great at night strikes. But vary slow and not nimble at high speeds due to its small size an heavy"ish" weight when full of fuel.
Basically, m8, no other countries wanted to buy the Harrier Jump Jet after it was developed, then built, and then being used by the RAF & RN . . . as they didn't really consider it as much of an airplane due to its main speed and hover ability. Also because our navy then changed from cat-trap carriers like the older Ark Royal, to the Invincible class which were less expensive to build, shorter in length, smaller in size, mainly to be used for helicopter operations, and then had the ski-jumps added on the front like the new QE2 & PoW carriers also have . . . It was only after the Falklands, and how they were being operated in Germany from front line bases hidden in woods, that any interest for them then began to show up . . . After which a couple of countries bought some - but the main buyer became the US Marines - as they had also wanted something which could be nearer to their troops on the ground as support . . . Later, when the UK Gov decided that the Harrier was becoming too old and needed more maintenance on them; instead of upgrading or renewing them in ay way, they just decided to get rid of them . . . A few went to private buyers, but the main bulk also went to the US Marines - almost, if not all any spare parts that were left . . . It's life within the UK armed forces as an aircraft was now at an end (just as with many others!) - however, the US Marines began to upgrade it even more - so they are still using them even now, as well as 1-2 countries do - but they may also get phased out before too long, as well . . . Sadly, if our Gov of the time had just done the same - then they would have been available for the QE2 & PoW while we are still awaiting a lot more F-35B's to arrive for them . . .
There is another video I think , where this same situation has happened before without nose landing gear, and without the ability to hover, and still landed
What kills me is that the location of the wheel and stool, etc. was completely out of the pilot's view. FIghter seats aren't made for you to see the parking lot.
Interesting that US marine fixed wing doctrine was massively adjusted after acquiring the Harriers from the Brits. The same doctrine that led to us selling back to them the same fixed wing role in the Royal Navy now. British Aerospace technology is 2nd only to the US. Not because of ability, but simply resources
I’m surprised you didn’t know the Harrier can hover. It was the only fighter aircraft during the Falkland war the Brits used. Also, the F-35 marine model was a replacement for the Harrier which is only subsonic.
That's what I said, & people made excuses for it. I don't see any excuse for it, especially as the RM's are taught the history of the corps, as part of their training i.e. he must know about the Falklands war, surely!
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The Harrier is the most dangerous aircraft flown by the US. The US Marines lost 45 pilots killed in Harrier crashes between 1971 and 2002. The aircraft was taken into service in 1971 before it was really completely developed and there always seem to be a shortage of funds to fix the problems. There just really was no other aircraft to fill the role the Harrier did. I remember watching one at an air show come roaring up to the viewing area, stop in the sky and hover, then zoom away off into the distance. But the the Harrier is a very old design and is really past it's use by date. The first crash was recorded in 1961. Now, with modern optical systems, it's no problem for the pilot to see underneath aircraft, just like people with modern cars that can see behind when backing up.
🇺🇸 have 3 different variations of the f35. 2 that fly regular and can't hover. And 1 that is specifically designed to hover . I believe it's the f35 C. Didn't know that the harrier could to
It is the "B" model of the F-35 that the US Marines use for STOVL on their Assault Carriers...the "C" version is the one for the US Navy that has the bigger wing and stronger gear for carrier operations. 👍
@@AA-xo9uw I had to check to see whether the USMC had started transitioning their VMFA carrier squadrons from the F-18 platform to the F-35C, and darned if you are not 100 percent correct...the first VMFA to fly the F-35C deployed in early 2022. Good catch, and thanks for the update.
Yes they can hover, that's why the USA loved that aircraft. It was a VTOL aircraft. The UK's Sea Harrier was a banger of a jet. The USA loved it so much that they entered a joint program to modify and upgrade the jet, but the UK backed out of the program due to the usual budget cuts that it regularly imposes upon its military. So, McDonnell Douglas took the aircraft on its own initiative and made it leaps & bounds better than the original one. The Sea Harrier saw extensive action with the Royal Navy during the Falklands War and was found to be quite maneuverable in dogfights, not to mention the USA provided Britain with the latest version (at that time) of the AIM-9 Sidewinder missile (which Britain didn't have), making the Harrier even deadlier than before. Great aircraft!😉👍
The harrier could hover but only for a very short time the engine had to be run beyond the normal operating speed and quickly started to overheat they uad a small coolant tank that was pumped directly into the engine but when that was empty the engine would quickly fail. This was the main reason the almost never took off verticaly it put too much stress on the engine for no real benefit far safer to take off in short take off mode with the nossles at 45 degrees instead of overheating the engine at 90 with a lower takeoff weight.
Finally a Harrier video and yes they are the original VTOL jet aircraft I've been asking for a reaction vid of the AV-8B Harrier jump jet for a long time especially since the UK was probably the second biggest user of the aircraft next to the US marines
"It has been around since 1971"(sic) The first generation GR.1 achieved IOC in October 1969 "McDonald Douglas"(sic) McDonnell Douglas "British aerospace"(sic) Hawker Siddeley "Rolls Royce"(sic) Bristol Siddeley
Fun fact, the harrier is a beast…the F-35 is the endgame of technology, if I’m not mistaken, the original has a 25mm gun, that you could hover and be a general nuisance
I’m disappointed in you considering you were a ship based royal marine. The next thing you’ve GOT to react to is “True Lies”… one of the all time great action movies, back when action movies were great
you should definitely do a harrier video not just the av8b that’s just a later upgrade by the us and i would love to see you play warthunder but it’s a time consuming game
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With a lot of financial and technical assistance from primarily the United States and the MWDP. “Without American support, it’s entirely possible there’d never even have been a Harrier; at least not one that existed beyond the confines of Ralph Hooper’s sketchbook. As early as 1959, NASA saw enough potential in the embryonic British jump jet design to provide encouraging technical reports. And while the Hawker board might have sanctioned building two P.1127 prototypes without any official backing, it was American money from an organization called the Mutual Weapons Development Program based in Paris - a sort of military start-up incubator - that largely financed the construction of the expensive BE.53 Pegasus engines on which flying prototypes were dependent. Indeed it was the same agency that had introduced Sir Stanley Hooker to Michel Wibault’s Gyroptere in the first place. Such was the lack of British government interest or support that one senior USAF General was sure that without intervention ‘an all British P.1127 would die a natural death - it would just wither away.’ And so the Pentagon proposed the creation of a multinational squadron to conduct a series of trials using a development of the P.1127 known as the Kestrel.” Harrier 809, Rowland White, pg. 75
@@freedomefighterbrony9053 Indeed - given the aforementioned tactical limitations of the F32, the F35 was introduced in early 2024, giving it a hoverablity of 35 seconds. This strategic ability provides an remarkable advantage over the equivalent hovering jet aircraft of our adversaries.
