815 Naval Air Squadron: The Wildcat maritime attack helicopter crack team

815 Naval Air Squadron (NAS) is the home of the Wildcat - the Royal Navy's latest generation maritime attack helicopter.
Forces News takes a closer look at the Royal Navy unit and their role.
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[@fToo]

@2:48 "literally our TAXI driver" ha ha

[@grahampritchard5284]

Heros of Taranto, 815 historically one of the Navy's finest squadron's 😎

[@toolmaker9411]

Another great product from Westland and yes, I am biased.

[@williamroberts9394]

Yeah, good company. They’re called Leonardo now though, because they’re 100% owned by them, and they’re majority owned by the Italian government. Still repair and maintain great helicopters though. Shame they haven’t retooled their machinery in 50 years, everything’s made 100% from hand and they can only make about 30-40 heli’s a year, which they mostly put together from kits. Other than that though we like them round Yeovil way and glad they didnt knock it down - just sold it off like almost everything else 😀

[@toolmaker9411]

@@williamroberts9394 Yes, I'm afraid your right. Served my apprenticeship at the Fairey Aviation Division and didn't see a new machine tool enter the works in all the time I was there, they relied so much on, as you say, the skills and ingenuity of the workforce. Having said that, it was a great place to learn a trade, which has served me well all my life.

[@Bingpot_Cowabunga]

Did he say jet skis? "Wildcat Niner, this is Beach Patrol Alpha. We have a jet ski refusing to come to shore. Target has been out for 36 minutes already but only paid for a 30. You have the green light to engage...."

[@Leon-lt5gv]

Reminds me of the lynx ' that was a quality helicopter ' & even the fastest at one stage 😁🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧

[@zozita.]

Handsome despite his old age👍❤💕

[@AlanHodgkinson-cc1ok]

Amazing chaps and ladies 😊😊😊🎉🎉🎉

[@KarenNaytowhow]

There like mobile mini Iron domes haha

[@tamtom763]

👍👍👍

[@KarenNaytowhow]

And HIMARS AND AIBRAMS

[@adventuresofdeankane3569]

Lethal and we need more not just a capability to tick a box

[@KarenNaytowhow]

Maufacture the Patriot Air defence mobile missile systems

[@goelnuma6527]

ugly compared to the lynx

[@trivit472]

A couple of these protecting the channel from the invasion would be perfect

[@Ianmundo]

found the racist

[@friedchicken4326]

you are suggesting to use attack helicopters on migrants? It's a good thing you are just a random youtube commenter and not in any position of power.

[@karl2851]

​@@friedchicken4326what do you suggest?.

[@ptonpc]

So you fancy murdering civilians. Russkie much comrade?

[@ptonpc]

@@karl2851 The government could reinstate the funding it removed from the immigration office to allow it to process immigrants both here and in France. Oddly enough that system worked well but the tories wanted to create this crisis, so withdrew funding, thus causing back logs and encouraging immigrants to take their chances (If they are in France, they are in a safe country, they could have been processed there cheaply and France would have taken care of sending them back). Yes the Rwanda deal is costing far far more than what funding the immigration system would have cost, along with giving Rwanda the right to send whoever it likes here, so it's not going to reduce immigration numbers. However, certain tories and their friends are making sweet sweet money out of it.

[@alanmcmillan6969]

Learn your lessons from the russian attack helicopters, and ground attacks

[@ptonpc]

Get blown out of the sky? Comrade, these helicopters are for the water bit. They can't hide behind terrain.

[@alanmcmillan6969]

@@ptonpc No, they are not Apache, but must have to be competent. But, they are Navy. Even so...