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  2. British Aerospace Harrier II - Wikipedia

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    March 2011. Developed from. Hawker Siddeley Harrier. McDonnell Douglas AV-8B Harrier II. The British Aerospace Harrier II is a second-generation vertical/short takeoff and landing (V/STOL) jet aircraft used previously by the Royal Air Force (RAF) and, between 2006 and 2010, the Royal Navy (RN). The aircraft was the latest development of the ...

  3. List of Harrier operators - Wikipedia

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    Squadron 1 Wing3 (HTMS Chakri Naruebet Flying Unit) – AV-8S and TAV-8S. [4] By 1999, only one aircraft of the 10 former Spanish aircraft received was believed to be airworthy because of lack of available spares. [5] In 2006 the Harrier was retired from service. [6] Harrier GR.3 of 1453 Flight at Stanley Airport in 1984 United Kingdom Royal ...

  4. Grain (unit) - Wikipedia

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    A grain is a unit of measurement of mass, and in the troy weight, avoirdupois, and apothecaries' systems, equal to exactly 64.798 91 milligrams. It is nominally based upon the mass of a single ideal seed of a cereal. From the Bronze Age into the Renaissance, the average masses of wheat and barley grains were part of the legal definitions of ...

  5. British military aircraft designation systems - Wikipedia

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    British military aircraft designations are used to refer to aircraft types and variants operated by the armed forces of the United Kingdom.. Since the end of the First World War, aircraft types in British military service have generally been known by a service name (e.g. 'Spitfire'), with individual variants recognised by mark numbers, often in combination with a letter to indicate the role.

  6. Hawker Siddeley Harrier - Wikipedia

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    Major General Joe Anderson. The United States Marine Corps began showing a significant interest in the aircraft around the time the first RAF Harrier squadron was established in 1969, and this motivated Hawker Siddeley to further develop the aircraft to encourage a purchase. Although there were concerns in Congress about multiple coinciding projects in the close air support role, the Marine ...

  7. 9th Gorkha Rifles - Wikipedia

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    Chhetri or gorkhas. The 9th Gorkha Rifles is a Gorkha infantry regiment of the Indian Army and, previously, the British Army.The regiment was initially formed by the British in 1817, and was one of the Gurkha regiments transferred to the Indian Army after independence as part of the tripartite agreement in 1947.

  8. SEPECAT Jaguar - Wikipedia

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    1973. First flight. 8 September 1968. Retired. 2005 (France) / 2007 (UK) / 2014 (Oman) The SEPECAT Jaguar is an Anglo-French supersonic jet attack aircraft originally used by the British Royal Air Force and the French Air Force in the close air support and nuclear strike role. It is still in service with the Indian Air Force.

  9. Grade (slope) - Wikipedia

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    Grade (slope) The grade (US) or gradient (UK) (also called stepth, slope, incline, mainfall, pitch or rise) of a physical feature, landform or constructed line refers to the tangent of the angle of that surface to the horizontal. It is a special case of the slope, where zero indicates horizontality. A larger number indicates higher or steeper ...