ALBERT ROSS
July 24, 2004 at 6:39 pm

Lynx pod query?

This Lynx from HMS Endurance is at the Weston-super-Mare Helidays this weekend, but what is the strange red ‘pod’ attached to its port fuselage, which I haven’t seen before. At first, I thought it was a spare nosecone! :confused:

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By: ALBERT ROSS - 25th July 2004 at 19:53

Thanks guys..guess its a search radar then!

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By: Papa Lima - 25th July 2004 at 13:22

Probably contains a radar scanner and swings down 180 degrees once airborne for surface vessel search: ASV radar, in other words.

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By: coanda - 25th July 2004 at 13:15

yup looks like a surface search radar, probably for locating ice floeas/ice bergs things like that, considering where this aircraft deploys to.

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By: GZYL - 24th July 2004 at 21:53

Looks like radar to me…. similar shape to that thimble type on the tail boom of SAR Sea Kings. Probably wrong though… not sure!