Up Close And Personal With The Wildcat | Forces TV

In the second part of a special report on the new Wildcat helicopter, which will be flown by both the Army and the Royal Marines, British Forces News has been exploring the model which will be in use onboard Royal Navy ships. It is being prepared for use by 700 Squadron in Yeovilton.
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[@oliversparks1459]

Love to work building those

[@man-h5y]

One of these just went over my house a few seconds ago

[@nfactorial4074]

Lol same. Thought it was a russian Mi26 at first!

[@man-h5y]

@@nfactorial4074 when it was circling, I thought it was a US navy blackhawk

[@cruisecompass8998]

philippine Navy have already 2 of these helocopter ..she will embark to .two .Jose rizal class frigates ...

[@muhammadfaizuddin794]

The Wildcat is the same model as the Super Lynx, is it correct Sir?

[@dag1668]

Hammer 001 but 200kph less

[@munusamya118]

Is was originally called the super lynx to replace the aging lynxs but was changed to wildcat.

[@hondansx1000]

Would be nice if they actually painted the Army ones green. Literally the only difference between the RN and AAC ones are the lack of chin mounted radar and the fact it says either Army or Navy on the side

[@cjever6625]

The Wildcat has such low rotor clearance. An NBA player would easily get amputated if he raises his hand.

[@bahramks]

That’s the “Persian gulf”.

[@jaberalzubidy9070]

The Arabian Gulf, despite your nose. There are no Persians on the shores of the Arabian Gulf

[@bahramks]

@@jaberalzubidy9070 yeah, I gues not much contribution to human history, culture or technoloy to be proud of, so gotta beg for the scraps.

[@petermallia558]

They should create a new joint mechanical engineering teams so each know exactly how the others machine works, although I know they're the same Wildcats, they differ in small ways and sometimes significant ways, so say for instance, a navy Wildcats was coming ashore to drop.of a few troops, Marines, then it went wrong, something in the aircraft, but inky an army wildcats mechanical engineer is on hand, he'll know how to fix the problem or create a fix for any problems if it can be fixed in the Field, using chewing gum and sticky tape, so to speak, and an in the other hand, an Army Wildcat transports injured troops to a Naval vessel, it goes down, inky a naval Air wing wildcats engineer at hand, again he'll know how exactly what to do, even if it's specific to the Army model, so I say again, create joint task groups for combating engineering problem by creating joint solutions, obviously everyone keeps their own side and it's parts and tools to their own service, Inventory and all those kinda purposes, it's for efficiency, as in parts needed when needed approach and not before, well that's how it was 20yr ago, until we began to modernise during Iraq and Afghanistan, thank the great cosmic consciousness, we Ans our lads needed it, and badly, thank the stars modernisation of brand new technologically advanced equipment is happening as we speak, from the RN to the Army to RAF, from manned to unmanned, from man in the loop controlled drones to newer autonomous unmanned drones, it's extremely exciting, And with my dream come true, BREXIT, well have no choice but to expand and upgrade.

[@EthanThomson]

the only differences would be on the avionics side of things. mechanically, they're practically the same aircraft AFAIK

[@Freemusicwoohoo]

@@EthanThomson yep you're right, our technical publications are pretty much identical, few differences but basically the same aircraft

[@movieviewing]

Wouldn’t it be simple if an aircraft it’s in the airforce, if a ground vehicle in the army and if a ship it’s the navy. Ridiculous having three separate airforces in the British military one airforce in army another airforce in the navy and an actual airforce in the raf. I know some military areas there might be cross skills like paras, marines and army knowing how to deploy from a helicopter for example. Royal Marines part of the navy but paras part of the army shouldn’t paras be part of the raf. Just seems Britons military not organised and surely cheaper having one Air Force instead of three separates ones.

[@jameson1239]

The US navy has the second largest airforce in the world and the reason why the navy has its own air wing is because helicopters are super useful for ASW, boarding and anti piracy they don’t just use the airforce as training because if the airforce to do all of that as well as what the airforce has to do takes that would take to long to implement and putting airforce on a navy ship would just make stuff complicated as they have different rank structures and different pay structures and people on ships generally have a secondary duty like damage control or first aid meaning an airforce pilot would have to be trained in that aswell so it’s actually probably cheaper to have each branch train it’s own aviators

[@moonmochi5562]

Because each one does different things so it's better to have the different aircraft suited to support those different branches.

[@tobiasgale1338]

All are completely different operationally

[@stanleybuchan4610]

Different roles for each service. Difficult to combine all 3 sevices into one.