Backwards PLT,
The harrier (in any guise) is an awful A-A platform.
Who says? I'm over at Mayport right now following JFTEX-08 and the USN folks I have spoken with thought the Shar was a great A-A package but insist that a II+ could out turn it. So if you if you fit a Blue Vixen on a II+ airframe, surely you end up with a better all round bird. Longer range, more weapons etc. Non?