Jaguar and harrier aircraft were extensively modified and improved.

美洲虎式和猎兔狗式飞机经过广泛的改造和改进。

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Thailand's 12, 000-ton Chari Naruebet is an outlier: too small for more than a handful of aircraft, but nevertheless capable of carrying the country's ancient, vertical-landing Harrier jets.

泰国一万两千吨“差克里-纳吕贝特”航母是个例外：太小以致可搭载的飞机很少，但仍可搭载该国的法宝——垂直降落鹞式战机。

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The Sniper was selected recently for use on Harrier GR9s as an urgent operational requirement for aircraft in Afghanistan.

“狙击手”吊舱已被选中作为紧急作战需求装备于在阿富汗作战的“鹞”GR9型攻击机。

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Military experts concluded the aircraft pictured was a Harrier, but could not identify the mystery object.

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With one exception: since the review's publication there has been simmering rage over a plan to scrap 80 Harrier jump-jets and Ark Royal, an aircraft-carrier, and to keep the RAF's Tornado fleet.

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Downing Street, it seems, wanted some positive headlines out of the SDSR, which was largely an exercise in cutbacks, so it decided to back the idea of Britain getting a "grown up" aircraft carrier, ie one launching conventional aircraft with catapults rather than a very large replacement "Harrier Carrier".

BBC: Why did coalition government change fighter plane plan?