New Helicopter Is 18 Months From Frontline Service
The U.K. Royal Navy's Five Fleet Air Arm pilots and observers are currently undergoing conversion training at the new Wildcat Training Center at Royal Naval Air Station (RNAS) Yeovilton, with the helicopter – successor to the Lynx – just 18 months away from front line service. From the beginning of 2015, Wildcats will begin to relieve the Lynx as the mainstay of helicopter operations for all of the Royal Navy’s Type 45 destroyers and some of its Type 23 frigates, as well as any other air missions the fleet requires of it.
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