British Aerospace Sea Harrier

The British Aerospace Sea Harrier is a subsonic naval jet fighter, reconnaissance and attack aircraft, the second member of the Harrier family. It is a short take-off and vertical landing aircraft powered by a single Rolls-Royce Pegasus turbofan with four vectorable nozzles, and it was developed from the Hawker Siddeley Harrier for the Royal Navy to fly from the Invincible class ships using a ski-jump. The prototype flew at Dunsfold in 1978, and the type entered Royal Navy service as the Sea Harrier FRS1, later followed by the upgraded FA2. It served in the Falklands War, where it was the only fixed-wing fighter available to the British Task Force, and in the Balkans. India was the only other operator, and the Royal Navy withdrew it in 2006 while the Indian Navy kept it until 2016.