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Friday, November 18, 2011

Marines won’t fly Brit Harriers

AV-8B HarrierAn official announcement could come within days of Britain’s sale of its remaining Harrier jump jets to the Marine Corps, but sources are saying privately the purchase will be strictly for spare parts and logistic support, and not a move to increase the operational fleet.

“We have no intent at any point to ever fly any of these” British jets, said one U.S. source.

The two-part deal was revealed Nov. 10 during a conference in New York, when Rear Adm. Mark Heinrich, chief of the U.S. Navy’s Supply Corps, told attendees he had negotiated a $50 million deal to purchase the spare parts inventory from the British.

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