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Italian Navy Portsmouth Dockyard
Posted: Fri Feb 16, 2024 6:26 pm
by Gruncle 01
Managed to get a couple of photographs of the 2 Italian AW101 on the flight deck in reasonable light today.
AW101 MM81636/2:21 Portsmouth Dockyard 16/02/2024 by
Michael Skinner, on Flickr
AW101 MM81485/2:06 Portsmouth Dockyard 16/02/2024 by
Michael Skinner, on Flickr
Re: Italian Navy Portsmouth Dockyard
Posted: Fri Feb 16, 2024 6:42 pm
by Professor_M
Very nice - well caught
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Always great to see Italian helicopters visiting these shores.
Re: Italian Navy Portsmouth Dockyard
Posted: Sat Feb 17, 2024 9:02 am
by Mustang531
Nice to see these, thanks for sharing them with us. There were times when I went down to Portsmouth when there were various visiting shops in the base, only to find their helicopters were tucked up inside their hangars. All a bit frustrating really.
Re: Italian Navy Portsmouth Dockyard
Posted: Sat Feb 17, 2024 12:02 pm
by Vulture 01
Looks as if there are two different types of '101 there: a CSAR and an ASW. Anyone know what he Italian designations might be?
Re: Italian Navy Portsmouth Dockyard
Posted: Sat Feb 17, 2024 12:43 pm
by POL
MM81636 is an MH-101A, MM81485 is an SH-101A...unless anyone thinks differently? The Italian designation system is utterly broken.
Re: Italian Navy Portsmouth Dockyard
Posted: Thu Feb 22, 2024 8:39 pm
by Gladio
Designations correct. There were also four EH-101A (2-09 - 2-12), which was the EH 101 Heliborn Early Warning variant, but the kit didn't perform to the spec, and the four are supposed to be 'being converted for general duties'....