No doubt the Harrier was a technical marvel PP, but the technology developed for that
particular aircraft (and no other) has hardly changed the world,
in my opinion.
that otherwise would not have happened at all.
Your premise for including the Harrier is that it was pivotal in retaking the Falklands, and that consequently the Soviet Union was forced to reconsider its approach to the UK and the other non-US NATO allies at a critical juncture in the Cold War
I don't dispute any of that, but in order for the Harrier to have been a 'world changing' aircraft then none of the post-Falklands history of the world would have happened without it, and we'd still be squaring up to the Soviet Union in a Cold War that never ended.
Sorry, but I don't buy that at all.
Still love the Harrier though.