{"id":76323,"date":"2024-07-01T03:00:11","date_gmt":"2024-06-30T17:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/when-us-marines-retire-last-av-8-jump-harrier\/"},"modified":"2024-07-01T03:00:11","modified_gmt":"2024-06-30T17:00:11","slug":"when-will-the-us-marines-retire-the-last-of-the-av-8-jump-harriers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=76323","title":{"rendered":"When Will The US Marines Retire The Last Of The AV-8 Jump Harriers?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                    All good things come to an end. The Navy retired its F-14 Tomcats, the Air Force is progressively retiring its A-10 Warthogs and B-1 Lancers, and it&#8217;s only time until the Marines retire their Harrier jump jets. For now, <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/is-av-8b-harrier-ii-vstol-still-in-service-us-marine-corps\/\">the AV-8B II Harrier remains in service with the Marine Corps<\/a>, but the clock is ticking. The Harriers are short takeoff and vertical landing (STOVL) aircraft designed to be able to operate off the Marines&#8217; amphibious assault ships and the former Royal Navy&#8217;s small <em>Illustrious<\/em>-class carriers.    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Marines are expected to retire the last of their Harriers in 2026, leaving the Spanish Navy as the last operators.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,2759,412,3509,5680],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-aircraft-carrier","category-military","category-retirement","category-us-marines"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76323"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76324,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76323\/revisions\/76324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}