Is the AV-8b Night Attack still in service?

[alexkon3]

Hi folks!

 

No matter where I am looking I can‘t really find any info regarding this. Is the Night Attack variant still in service or is it completely replaced with the + variant? If it is out of service does anybody know when it was retired? Wikipedia does not really go into the details which variant anybody uses besides „AV-8b“ and other sites don‘t really help either.

 

Cheers!

[Fri13]

It was same time in service with the Plus variant, about 1/3 were N/A variants and 2/3 were plus variants.

 

Based to wikipedia it is still in service. And there are news like this:

 

https://seapowermagazine.org/may-extend-av-8b-harrier-service/

Edited June 25, 2020 by Fri13

[alexkon3]

It was same time in service with the Plus variant, about 1/3 were N/A variants and 2/3 were plus variants.

 

Based to wikipedia it is still in service. And there are news like this:

 

https://seapowermagazine.org/may-extend-av-8b-harrier-service/

 

Yeah I saw some news from 2017 that also said that they are still in service pretty much still the 1/3 to 2/3 ratio so I guess they did not change that much

[Mars Exulte]

Afaik, the day fighter versions have been retired or upgraded and the remainder are a mix of NA and +. It's actually pretty rare for a variant to be wholly phased out. Just like the F-14 fleet was a mix of As, Bs, and Ds I think right to the end.