By: John Aeroclub - 31st March 2025 at 11:29
The only armed Whirlwind I’ve come across was XK969 a Mk.2 experimentally armed with a ww.1 type 303 Vickers machine gun installed in the cabin and firing through the open door.
John
By: pzluchs - 31st March 2025 at 11:27
John, what You say about this?
it’s fragment of Technical Memorandum No. WS.1065
APPENDIX 2 ARMAMENT BEING FITTED TO AIR FORCE HELICOPTERS
1 Whirlwind Mk.10
(a) Four Nord SS-11 missiles,
(b) One 20 mm Hispano cannon mounted either as a fixed or free gun.
NOTE: The cannon may bo replaced by either two 7.62 mm machine guns or four 2 inch, 7-tube rocket launchers.
And this:
FLIGHT International, 1 November 1962 “Whirlwind Squadron’s Role
Army Close Support” By Humphrey Wynn. “… operational activities, such as airlifting supplies for the Army: casualty evacuation; missile- and gun-firing; minelaying; training parachute troops; assisting flood victims; spraying mosquito-ridden ground; and carrying VIPs…”
By: RPSmith - 31st March 2025 at 11:26
Is there any mix-up here of “Mk.2” and “Srs.2” ??
Roger Smith.
By: John Aeroclub - 31st March 2025 at 11:26
The Westland book gives no armament for the Mk.10 but says the Mk.2 was trialed with 4 Nord SS-11’s.
John
By: sycamore - 31st March 2025 at 11:24
On 225 Sdn all our WW10s were fitted with pintles in the door and port cabin window for the Bren gun. We also had 4 a/c, XP301/332/358/393 which could carry 4 x SS11s wire-guided missiles. Never heard/saw anything about cannons/rockets, which would have cheered us up; protection was `flak` jackets and 1/2″ mild-steel plate under the seat cushion.Self-protection was a Webley .38`modified to take 9mm,or a Stirling,until I bought a WaltherP38,and acquired an Armalite from a Hereford Hooligan.
I later did handling and firing trials on a Mk 9 WW with SS-11s,XM666,for HMS Endurance when she went South,as the Argies were getting `heavy`in 1969.
There may have been other WWs modified (another Mk 9 as well) on 230 Sdn,and possibly 28.
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