See Derek Wood, Project Cancelled (London: MacDonald and Jane’s, 1975), pp. 207–24. The Admiralty did not appear to want the P.1154 and ensured that its requirements for the aircraft were almost ...

22,000 pounds of thrust enable the Harrier II to hover like a helicopter, and then blast forward like a jet at near-supersonic speeds. Like every aircraft in the Marine fleet, this aircraft is ...