Second Chinook helicopter back in the Falklands from Afghanistan

Monday, July 11th 2016 - 07:19 UTC

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Prior to 2006 the United Kingdom had a pair of Chinooks permanently detached to the Falkland Islands

The United Kingdom has returned to the Falkland Islands one of the two Boeing Chinook heavy-lift helicopters that were withdrawn in 2006 for operational service in Afghanistan, the Ministry of Defense (MoD) told IHS Jane's on 4 July.

Prior to 2006 the United Kingdom had a pair of Chinooks permanently detached to the South Atlantic islands. With combat operations in Afghanistan having concluded in December 2014, the Secretary of State for Defense, Michael Fallon, announced in March 2015 that the Chinook force would return to this baseline strength.

According to the MoD, the first helicopter arrived back in the Falkland Islands in June after having been transported by ship, and is now flying.

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falklandlad
Greatest local military news for some while. Finally, a long-overdue string returned to the CBFs bow.
Jul 11th, 2016 - 10:05 am 0
Conqueror
The Chinook can probably use any part of the Falklands as a base. Pity we lost so many when the Atlantic Conveyor went down. Excellent troop transport, equipment transport and, with a bit of modification, gunship. Check out the number of windows. Take out the plexiglass and install miniguns.
Jul 11th, 2016 - 10:43 am 0
Martin Woodhead
Wonder if fanklinook is one of them one chinnok was badly damaged in an accident so they used a captured argintine chinnok to repair it.
Jul 12th, 2016 - 01:04 pm 0

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