''Who Dares Wins'

Someone (I can’t think who it was) wrote an article on the Scout and Wasp. His description of the Wasp made me chuckle, said it looked like an oil rig with rotors. Seeing that photo I can see his reasoning.

Scouts were used in support of the SAS. They were not SAS-owned per se, but provided by the Army Air Corps, which has a flight dedicated to supporting SF.

There are several training films of the SAS abseiling onto buildings from Scouts (one of which was shown on BBC’s Panorama some time in the late 1980s) – although there appears to be no footage of troopers dangling beneath Scouts using recoilless rifles fired from the hip to effect a precise entry into a building…

Oops, my mistake, yeah they were Scouts not Wasps, Wasp came into my head at the time.

Anyone here catch this movie about the SAS late last night on BBC1? Personally i really enjoyed it, especially the Westland Wasp shots. Would the Wasps have been used by the SAS at this time?

The films a bit knaff, it was when it was first released. Made to make Lewis Collins look butch, after the Professionals.

I’m not sure about Scouts, they probably did use them. However they use to use a former anti-aircraft site just to the South West of Filton for training purposes back in the mid 1980’s. Back then they would be dropped in by a Wessex or two.

I think the site is still there, however as I haven’t lived in the area for 16 years it may now be a housing estate.

They were Scouts: like Wasps but with skids, not wheels.
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