LO,
I appreciate what you're saying ( though the phrase 'troll' springs to mind ! ) but the Harrier is / was rather good at A/A, and the accident rate - while 1 crash is a tragedy let alone more ) was better than the type's contemporaries ? -
I was a simple berk vagueley involved in flight testing of various Harrier variants, there are people on this site much better quailified to comment.