First Four Lynx Mk9A Helicopters Delivered Just 12 Months After Contract Award
AgustaWestland, a Finmeccanica company, is pleased to announce that the first four upgraded Lynx Mk.9A helicopters for the British Army have been delivered, with the fourth aircraft delivered today, just 12 months after contract award.
Three of these four aircraft will be used by the Army Air Corps for conversion to type and conversion to role training at its Dishforth base in Yorkshire.
In 2010 the Lynx Mk.9A helicopters will deploy to Afghanistan to support British and coalition forces, where its exceptional hot and high performance will enable the aircraft to operate year round in the demanding environmental conditions experienced there.
Nick Whitney, Senior VP – UK Government Business Unit, said at the handover of the fourth aircraft “Everybody involved at AgustaWestland, our suppliers and the MoD Project Team are to be congratulated for delivering the first four aircraft in just 12 months against an extremely tight programme schedule. We know the enhanced operational capabilities these aircraft will deliver will be of great benefit to our troops in Afghanistan and we are now working around the clock to ensure we deliver the remaining aircraft not just on time but ahead of schedule.”
Following the flight of the first aircraft in September 2009 the Lynx Mk.9A completed its qualification test programme successfully demonstrating the airframe was capable of maximising the improved performance provided by the LHTEC CTS800 engines, thus meeting or exceeding the customers’ Key User Requirements.
In addition to upgrading the aircraft AgustaWestland has successfully completed maintainer and aircrew training programmes at its Yeovil facility, delivered new Integrated Electronic Technical Publications, spares packages and lap-top based training emulations.
A further three aircraft will be delivered by April 2010, followed by the final batch of five aircraft by September 2010, giving the British Army 12 Lynx Mk.9A helicopters three months ahead of the contracted date.
AgustaWestland is also working with the MoD on a follow-on-contract to upgrade the remaining 10 Lynx Mk.9s to Mk.9A standard, which would see the final aircraft being upgraded by early 2012.
I thought the army lynx had some kind of sensor’s on the front? It was either a turret above the passenger seat coming out the roof or sensors like the navies lynx’s. I take it these aircraft will be used in Afghanistan for flying commander duties and observation flying as well as light transport duties. Are these lynx’s fitted with the crash resistant seats or is it still capable of carrying 10 troops? What kind of sensors are these new lynx’s fitted with. Do they have optical sensors or is it a job of looking out the window with a pair of binoculars lol:eek:. I take it these will also be fitted with loads of defensive aids. The commando seakings look like someone has got a box of magnetic defensive counter measures and chucked them at the helicopter. There is about 10 boxes dotted all over the place.
I thought i would add in some interesting pictures of JSF i found on Richard beddall Navy matters site. This site is wonderful for Navy stuff. http://frn.beedall.com/
What we could of ended up with, BAE and Mcdonnell Douglas Variant. ( not many pictures of this floating around) Personally i like it.
Will we see this one day soon? The F-35 operating from the Invincible class carriers deck. i’m guessing we will see this for trials now the 3 aircraft are on order.
It seems like for the harrier upgrade there was 2 seperate projects i think. I haven’t seen much about what these aircraft was going to be like or have on them. Quite an interesting development i think.
There is the Harrier 3 here from around the 1990’s.
And the Super harrier that seems to have been thought of sometime in the 80’s. Probably as the success the harrier had in Falklands some people thought lets go crazy.
Has anyone got any pic’s of the CVF development. How’s the super block building getting along. I’ve not been down to roysth recently but i’m not sure there is any activity going on there anyway with CVF. Maybe some ships in Refit to look at.
The new Astute class has it torpedo tubes on view in this picture. this has the 6 tubes (3 on each side) in what i presume to be the same layout as the swiftsure Trafalgar class layout but with only 2 on each side. What is interesting is where the location of the 5th tube is on these boats. I’m still trying to find a picture of one of the boats before launch like the Astute picture. This would hopefully show the tubes.
This picture of one of the Vanguard class only has 4 tubes i think. They seem to be in the same place as the 6 on Astute. As the Vanguards were a new class i’m not sure how much bearing the previous class of Swiftsure and Trafalgar had on there design.
Just for fun i guess this is to help the captain get his TV working
When looking into the torpedo tube issue as to why they are equipped with 5 tubes instead of 6 i think the only explanation is that the location of the Sonar and the fact it is so big forces the tubes to be located down the sides and the RN have manged to squeeze and extra tube at the bottom. When looking at the US Los Angles class they only seem to have 4 torpedo tubes. I wasn’t sure if the RN borrowed that heavily from US technology and building techniques when building these subs that they would of basically taken the design of the front end of the LA class and used this in the Swiftsure design. If this was the case it would look like the RN managed to squeeze an extra tube when compared with the Americans. I don’t think Tomahawk would have bore much significance to the design of Swiftsure class as i don’t think it was available. Whether the RN were looking at sub harpoon or another anti ship missile and this maybe made the RN think that 5 tubes are better than 4 compared to the LA class. I’m not sure of torpedo tube reload speed but i imagine it’s not that fast seen as how the torpedo weighs about 2 tons. Here is a diagram i drew of what i think the layout may have been. Anyone is welcome to correct me or provide a better explanation.
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I went to see the Spanish submarine Delfin in Torrevieja harbour (a must see for any visitor to Costa Blanca, It’s was decommissioned in 2003 and gifted to the town as a tourist attraction. They provide very good guided tours in English or other languages of the inside apart from the engine and battery room) It has 8 tubes on the front and 2 or 4 in the back but i don’t think these can be reloaded. These took up basically the whole front of the hull but i don’t think these could be reloaded at sea. Going by this i imagine the tubes and reloads on Swiftsure and Trafalgar take up a lot of space. The idea someone said about the 5th centre tube firing downwards bears some sense as when looking at the drawing i did the tube would either be going through the sonar or would have to have it own reload room as it would probably be on a different level from the other tubes. Is there a procedure for RN subs as to which torpedo tube fires first or is it just random. Thinking of this you may only get a RN sub firing a weapon from each tube a few times during testing during in its whole career.
Here is a picture of the LA class showing it’s VLS tubes. I’m not sure how many missiles fit in each cell but there are numbers on each cell that go up in 2’s so maybe it’s 2 in each cell. These are located further back from the front in what looks like a plug.
How many load stations does the Jaguar have? The main thing i don’t know is fuselage points. Normally in RAF service it would of had 2 drop tanks on the inner wing and sidewinders on the over wing points. What was the normal load for the outer wing points and fuselage points?
EADS Defence & Security protects new Australian Amphibious Ships
.Sophisticated identification systems support safe helicopter landings and provide situation awareness
.Reducing the risk of accidental attacks on allied forces
EADS Defence & Security (DS) provides the new “Canberra” class amphibious ships of the Royal Australian Navy with the latest technology identification systems in order to enhance flight safety and situation awareness. Defence Electronics (DE), an integrated activity of DS, has been awarded a contract by BAE Systems to deliver two MSSR 2000 I IFF (= Identification Friend or Foe) systems for the installation onboard LHD1 and LHD2 (LHD = Landing Helicopter Dock) by 2015. Their integration into the Combat Management System is done by SAAB.
IFF systems, so-called secondary surveillance radars (SSR), precisely collect data such as origin, course, speed etc. of individual aircraft by automatically sending interrogation signals which are answered by so-called transponders on-board the incoming aircraft. Thus, the IFF systems ensure reliable identification of incoming aircraft substantially reducing the risk of accidentally attacks on friendly forces. This data exchange in the military field is based upon encrypted signals which cannot be analyzed or jammed by hostile forces.
“Providing latest technology IFF systems like MSSR 2000 I increases situational awareness for allied forces” explained Bernd Wenzler, CEO of Defence Electronics “and therefore increases mission success and security for airborne and ground forces.”
Defence Electronics has delivered many IFF systems to several NATO nations for ground and naval applications. For example, the MSSR 2000 I interrogator is operated by the naval forces of Germany, France, Norway and Finland for the military friend-or-foe identification (IFF). Furthermore, DS is also active in the field of civil Air Traffic Control. DE’s identification systems are used for air traffic control in such countries as Portugal and the Philippines.
Defence Electronics is an integrated activity of EADS Defence & Security (DS). DS is a systems solutions provider for armed forces and civil security worldwide. Its portfolio ranges from sensors and secure networks through missiles to aircraft and UAVs as well as global security, service and support solutions. In 2008, DS – with around 23,000 employees – achieved revenues of € 5.7 billion. EADS is a global leader in aerospace, defence and related services. In 2008, EADS generated revenues of € 43.3 billion and employed a workforce of about 118,000.
I love seeing a break down picture of ships. Maybe we can sart a thread of anyone has more of different ships. Perhaps CVF, Ocean, the bays, Albion, Invicible compared to ocean would be a good one even older ships like HMS fearless,
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