NAVY NEWS, JANUARY 2007
HAS3
Sea King HC4/4+
er Anti Submarine
Type: Helicopter Commando, known as a
metres
‘Jungly’
etres
Length: 22.15 metres
r: 12.80 metres
Rotor diameter: 18.9 metres
1 mph (175 knots)
Max speed: 143mph (125 knots)
nge: 328 miles (285nm)
Range: 750 miles (651nm)
s)
Engines: Two Rolls-Royce Gnome 1400-1
Rolls-Royce Gem
Turboshafts
Armament: can carry GPMG (General
Purpose Machine Gun)
S Yeovilton
Load: 27 fully equipped troops
2 NAS, 815 NAS
Crew: 3
sticated older sibling of
Squadrons: 845 NAS, 846 NAS and 848
8.
NAS within the Commando Helicopter
ynx HAS3 of 702 NAS
Force (CHF)
rgus
Based at: RNAS Yeovilton
PO(Phot) Mark Hipkin
These helicopters, along with the Lynx
AH7 used by 847 NAS, make up the
Commando Helicopter Force to support
the actions of the Royal Marines and other
ground troops in operational theatres
around the world.
The HC4+ is an upgraded version of the
commando helicopter HC4 for use in
extreme conditions, such as the arid, high
and cold conditions of Afghanistan.
Photograph: A CHF ‘jungly’ Sea King HC4+
lands amid the swirling dust of Afghanistan
Photographer: Cpl S Dove AGC (Army)
Merlin HM1
Type: Maritime Patrol Helicopter
Entered service: December 1998
Length: 22.8 metres
Rotor width: 18.6 metres Harrier GR7/9
Max speed: 192mph (167 knots)
Type: Strike jet fixed-wing STOVL
Operational radius: 230 miles (200nm)
(short take-off, vertical-landing)
Engines: Three Rolls-Royce
aircraft
Turbomeca RTM322 gas turbines
Length: 14.12 metres
Armament: can carry four
Wingspan: 9.25 metres
Sting Ray torpedoes, Mk 11 Mod 3
Height: 3.56 metres
depth charges; can mount GPMG
Crew: 1
(general purpose machine guns)
Max speed: 662mph (Mach 0.87)
Crew: 3
Operational radius: 346 miles (300nm)
Squadrons: 814 NAS, 820 NAS, 824
Service ceiling: 15,000 metres
NAS and 829 NAS
Powerplant: one Rolls-Royce Pegasus
Based at: RNAS Culdrose
Lynx AH7
Mk 105 turbofan, or upgraded to a
Mk 107
Squadrons: Naval Strike Wing
Type: Army Helicopter
encompassing elements of 800 NAS
Entered service:
and 801 NAS
Length: 13.4 metres
Based at: RAF Wittering and RAF
Height: 3.5 metres
Cottesmore
Crew: 2-3
In 2006 the last Sea Harriers retired
Rotor diameter: 12.80 metres
from service with the Royal Navy
Rotor: four blade, semi-rigid
and the Fleet Air Arm’s jet expertise
Max speed: 207 mph (180 knots)
transferred into the Joint Force
Operational range: 230 miles
Harrier.
(standard tanks)
Variants of the RAF Harrier include
Powerplant: Two Rolls-Royce Gem
GR7, GR7a, GR9 and GR9a
turboshafts
dependent on avionics, weapons and
Armament: one General Purpose
engines upgrades.
Machine Gun
The Harriers are used by all three
Squadron: 847 NAS within the
squadrons of the JFH: 1(F)Sqn and
Commando Helicopter Force
IV(AC)Sqn and the Naval Strike Wing;
Based at: RNAS Yeovilton
and the training squadron 20(R) which
The ‘jungly’ Lynx of CHF is an Army
is made up of personnel from both
asset flown by RN and RM aviators of
Services
the FAA.
Photograph: An 800 NAS Harrier flies
Photograph: A Lynx AH7 training in Photograph: A Merlin HM1 flies past
during Op Aquila
the mountains of France HMS Sutherland
Photographer: SAC Travis (RAF)
Photographer: LA(Phot) Billy Bunting Photographer: LA(Phot) Brett Turner
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