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A pair of Royal Navy Wessex helicopters on the flight deck of HMS Intrepid, 1968. An improved variant, the Wessex HAS.3, succeeded the HAS.1 in the anti-submarine role; it had a more capable radar and better avionics, greater engine power, improved navigational features and a more advanced weapon system; the original HAS.1 were re-tasked for SAR duties. [5]
Naval-History.Net - "Battle Atlas of the Falklands War 1982" by Gordon Smith "8 Bells Lecture. Rear Adm. Chris Parry: Falklands War and the Importance of Naval Corporate Memory". US Naval War College/Youtube. 2016-03-12. Archived from the original on 2021-12-21 "Sea Control 74: Falklands Series 5 – South Georgia OPS" (Podcast). Center for ...
Atlantic Causeway 14,946 GRT – equipped with helicopter pad [6] and carried eight ASW Sea Kings and twenty Westland Wessex helicopters; arrived 27 May. [23] Contender Bezant 11,445 GRT – equipped with helicopter pad and carried 9 Wasp helicopters, 4 Harriers and 3 Chinooks; arrived after cease fire. [6] [24] - purchased as RFA Argus post-war
A Westland Wessex helicopter delivering supplies at Ascension Island in May 1982. The 1982 British military campaign to recapture the Falkland Islands depended on complex logistical arrangements. The logistical difficulties of operating 7,000 nautical miles (8,100 mi; 13,000 km) from home were formidable.
From July 1962 the squadron converted to Westland Wessex, a development of the Sikorsky H-34 produced under licence by Westland, initially the HAS.1 variant, a utility and anti-submarine warfare helicopter, and then in October 1967 it took on deliveries of Westland Wessex HAS.3, an improved anti-submarine version. 737 Naval Air Squadron took ...
2 Westland Wessex HU.5 (crashed in bad weather on Fortune Glacier 22 April) [13] 2 Westland Sea King HC.4 [ 12 ] (1 lost operational accident 23 April) [ 13 ] 4 Sea Harrier FRS.1 (two 801 Sqn CAP collided over the task force on 6 May – one 800 Sqn crashed during takeoff from Hermes on 24 May – one 801 Sqn slid off deck in bad weather on 29 ...
Westland Wessex HAS.3: XP142: HMS Antrim Crest: Falklands Exhibition - Humphrey. Sharpnel damage to aircraft Westland Wessex HU.5: XT765: J: Falklands Exhibition Westland Sea King HAS.6: XV663: 771 SAR 18 Rescue / RAF Rescue: Falklands Exhibition - previously used by 825 NAS. Left side in Royal Navy markings and the right side in yellow Royal ...
The ships were used to carry supplies for the Royal Navy Task Force sent by the British government to retake the Falkland Islands from Argentine occupation. Sailing for Ascension Island on 25 April 1982, Atlantic Conveyor carried a cargo of six Wessex helicopters from 848 Naval Air Squadron and five RAF Chinook HC.1s from No. 18 Squadron RAF.