Fleet Air Arm Boys: True Tales from Royal Navy Men and Women Air and Ground Crew: Volume Three - Helicopters Bond Steve
Fleet Air Arm Boys: True Tales from Royal Navy Men and Women Air and Ground Crew: Volume Three - Helicopters Bond Steve Helicopters have been going to sea with the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm for over…
Specifikacia Fleet Air Arm Boys: True Tales from Royal Navy Men and Women Air and Ground Crew: Volume Three - Helicopters Bond Steve
Fleet Air Arm Boys: True Tales from Royal Navy Men and Women Air and Ground Crew: Volume Three - Helicopters Bond Steve
Helicopters have been going to sea with the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm for over 70 years. The 1956 Suez campaign saw the first operational use of Whirlwind helicopters for the insertion of troops by air into a battle zone, a capability which was expanded with more helicopters such as the Wessex, Sea King and today's Merlin. Initially used for search and rescue (SAR) duties from aircraft carriers, the rapid development of both the helicopters and service experience resulted in them taking on the vital anti-submarine (and later anti-ship) attack roles.
The same would surely have been true without helicopters. Through their vital role in the 1960s Indonesian Confrontation, the Commando helicopter force became universally referred to as the 'Junglies'.It is often said that if either of the 1982 Task Force aircraft carriers had been lost the Falklands War could not have been won.