Editing Hawker Siddeley Harrier (section)

====Skyhook and post Falklands deployment====
[[File:BELIZE 90 23.jpg|thumb|An RAF Harrier GR.3 in Belize, 1990|alt=A Harrier stored at an airfield]]

Following the Falklands War, British Aerospace explored the Skyhook, a new technique to operate Harriers from smaller ships. Skyhook would have allowed the launching and landing of Harriers from smaller ships by holding the aircraft in midair by a crane; secondary cranes were to hold weapons for rapid re-arming. This would potentially have saved fuel and allowed for operations in rougher seas.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=h9QDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA181 "Skyhooks for Harriers".] ''Popular Mechanics'', October 1983, p. 181. Retrieved 31 July 2011.</ref> The system was marketed to foreign customers,{{refn|In the early 1990s, following Japanese interest in acquiring Harriers, Skyhook was suggested as a means to operate onboard their [[helicopter destroyer]]s.<ref>Jacobs, Gordon. "Reporting from the East, Japan continues to emphasis its sea defense forces". ''Jane's Defence Weekly'', 1990, p. 64.</ref>|group=N}} and it was speculated that Skyhook could be applied to large submarines such as the Russian {{sclass2|Typhoon|submarine|4}}, but the system attracted no interest.<ref>Treadwell, Terry. "Submarine Aviation", ''The Putnam Aeronautical Review'', 1991. pp. 46–54.</ref>

The first generation of Harriers did not see further combat with the RAF after the Falklands War, although they continued to serve for years afterwards. As a deterrent against further Argentine invasion attempts, [[No. 1453 Flight RAF]] was deployed to the [[Falkland Islands]] from August 1983 to June 1985.<ref name=Sturtivant123>Sturtivant 2007, p. 123.</ref> However the second generation [[British Aerospace Harrier II|Harrier II]]s saw action in Bosnia, Iraq, and Afghanistan. The first generation Hawker Siddeley airframes were replaced by the improved Harrier II, which had been developed jointly between McDonnell Douglas and British Aerospace.<ref name=Jenkins_88-9>Jenkins 1998, pp. 88–89.</ref>