FODPlod
Edited your first para (my bold) to be nearer the truth
That would be the Fleet Air Arm's excellent Harrier F/A2, hung out to dry after it was sold down the river by the then 1SL (Adm Boyce (a sun-dodger through and through who therefore didn't give a stuff about the FAA) as a means of freeing up cash to pay for boats and things for which he got rewarded by being promoted to CDS.
Of course, in both our posts, you should never let the truth get in the way of a bit of single Service bashing!