Numerous reports have been made, countless excuses employed.
Here is an interesting fact a Gr.3 with 85% internal fuel should have a superior instantaneous turn rate than the MiG-21, with the fishbed at just 75% internal fuel. At 250 knots and below.
At 500 knots the harrier using only 84% throttle will climb at just 300 feet per second slower than the MiG-21 for a steady climb condition. Using 95% throttle while maintaining 400 knots or less the Harrier should out climb the MiG-21.
The MiG-21 is one of the best close in low speed fighters for its Br and yet it should be bested by the fat small wing harrier when using only 60 degrees of nozzle angle.
This issue is very annoying and should really be fixed.
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It is rumored the Harrier could leave Earth’s orbit under its own power.
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Very funny, a fixed harrier would be able to beat other fighters in game. The only thing the current harrier can beat is a cruise liner.
The harrier can however break 30,000 feet almost straight vertical under its own power.
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matrix about to get gaijined again.
Really hope not, I’m just so tired of this.
It’s genuinely a good airplane, albeit a bit slow.
Being able to out turn one of the best slow speed turn fighters is pretty impressive.
Imagine how much more fun it would be if you could just easily beat something like the MiG-21.
we all can dream.
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so if its THAT good brits got rid of the Harrier because…
To be fair there was alot stupid decisions made around the time the Harriers were retired including retiring them
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you can keep reporting this as often as you like it will never change
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There are multiple existing Harrier topics open for discussion. Please stop making new ones every time a bug report is made.
Technical data and discussion on the British Harrier II, marks GR.5/GR.5A, GR.7/GR.7A and GR.9/GR.9A. Contributions welcome.
Harrier II GR.5/GR.5A
The GR5 was the RAF’s first model of the second-generation Harrier. The GR5 considerably differed from the USMC AV-8B in terms of avionics, armaments and countermeasures. Forty one GR5s were built.
The GR5A was a minor variant, incorporating design changes in anticipation of the GR7 upgrade. Twenty-one GR5As were built.
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Sea Harrier FRS.1
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The British Aerospace Sea Harrier is a naval short take-off and vertical landing/vertical take-off and landing jet fighter, reconnaissance and attack aircraft. It is the second member of the Harrier Jump Jet family developed. It first entered service with the Royal Navy in April 1980 as the Sea Harrier FRS1 and became informally known as the “Shar”. Unusual in an era in which most naval and land-based air superiority fighters were large and supersonic,…
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