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Wasp
A Westland Wasp HAS.1 in Royal Navy markings
Role
Helicopter
Type of aircraft
National origin
United Kingdom
Manufacturer
Westland Helicopters
First flight
28 October 1962
Introduction
1963
Retired
2000 (Royal Malaysian Navy)
Primary users
Royal Navy Royal New Zealand Navy Royal Netherlands Navy Royal Malaysian Navy
Number built
133
Developed from
Saro P.531
The Westland Wasp is a small 1960s British turbine-powered, shipboard anti-submarine helicopter. Produced by Westland Helicopters, it came from the same Saunders-Roe P.531 programme as the British Army Westland Scout, and is based on the earlier piston-engined Saunders-Roe Skeeter. It fulfilled the requirement of the Royal Navy for a helicopter small enough to land on the deck of a frigate and carry a useful load of two homing torpedoes.
The WestlandWasp is a small 1960s British turbine-powered, shipboard anti-submarine helicopter. Produced by Westland Helicopters, it came from the same...
a common ancestor and numerous components with the naval-orientated WestlandWasp helicopter. The type's primary operator was the Army Air Corps of the...
aerospace, the WestlandWasp was a military helicopter developed in England in 1958 and used by the Royal Navy and other navies. The AeroVironment Wasp III is...
from flying school. Two years later, RMN purchased a batch of used WestlandWasp from Royal Navy as their first flying unit. The RMN aviation officially...
the Turbomeca Turmo in the late 1950s. It was used on the Westland Scout and WestlandWasp helicopters. The Nimbus is a turboshaft engine comprising a...
Aircraft Bell 47 – Training Helicopter Bell UH-1 – Utility Helicopter WestlandWasp – Naval based helicopter Morrisons modernisation programme saw the RNZAF...
Malaysian Navy unit colours. The Royal Malaysian Navy purchased six used WestlandWasp helicopters from the Royal Navy in May 1986. As part of the agreement...
armament of the new Mark 8 4.5-inch (113 mm) gun, facilities for a WestlandWasp helicopter, anti-ship missiles and two triple lightweight Seacat missile...
(tests) Saunders-Roe P.531 (tests) (only 6 built) WestlandWasp (introduction to service) Westland Sea King (introduction to service) Boeing Insitu Scaneagle...
American Mustang Patchen Explorer Paterson Biplane Pilatus PC-7 Mk.II WestlandWasp AFB Ysterplaat is home to the last airworthy Avro Shackleton. The Shackleton...
Forces 2017". Flightglobal Insight. 2017. Retrieved 26 March 2017. "Malaysia Wasp". www.helis.com. "DSA - Baru 12 Tahun Dengan TUDM, Pesawat MB-339CM Sudah...
approaching Ascension Island, returning from the Falklands. Two Westland Lynx and a WestlandWasp are visible. Wreckage of Sea Harrier XZ450, piloted by Lt...
role by a squadron of WestlandWasp helicopters operated from anti-submarine frigates. These helicopters were replaced by Westland Lynxs, and these were...
HMS Endurance, which the next day was able to airlift them out by her WestlandWasp. After this operation, 17 Troop took to calling itself "The South Georgia...
Westland WG.13, was started in the mid-1960s as a replacement for the Westland Scout and Wasp, and a more advanced alternative to the UH-1 Iroquois. The design...
at AFB Ysterplaat as 22 Flight and equipped with the newly delivered WestlandWasp helicopter, becoming a full squadron in May 1976. In 1978, it received...
aviation. The turboshaft engine allowed smaller helicopters, such as the WestlandWasp, to operate from smaller vessels than their reciprocating engine predecessors...
p. 51. Retrieved 9 January 2018. Abas, Marhalim (3 June 2011). "MV Bunga Mas Lima Goes Pirate Hunting". Malaysian Defence. "Malaysia Wasp". helis.com....
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