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Montevideo, November 22nd 2024 - 01:30 UTC

Tag: Lynx

  • Wednesday, June 26th 2024 - 09:12 UTC

    Falklands Museum Sea Harrier and Lynx Helicopter presented in UK media

    Lynx XZ725, which attacked an Argentine submarine with her GPMG in 1982, returns to the Falklands to enjoy a more peaceful life (Picture: Royal Navy)

    Forces.net, a UK armed forces platform has published that a Royal Navy Sea Harrier and a Lynx helicopter – a combat veteran of the Falklands War – have completed their 8,000-mile journey to the Falkland Islands. The Sea Harrier ZH801 and Lynx XZ725 were taken by road on the final leg of their trip to Stanley where they will become main exhibits in the city's museum.

  • Friday, June 14th 2024 - 07:19 UTC

    Falklands: Sea Harrier and Lynx helicopter arrived on time for Liberation Day

    Falkland Islanders will be able to visit the two aircraft on Friday and over the weekend (Pic S. Luxton)

    Finally, the Sea Harrier and Lynx helicopter, donated by the UK Defense Ministry have arrived in the Falkland Islands on time for Liberation Day, Friday June 14th. The final destination of the two aircraft is the Lookout Gallery and Exhibition Hall under construction for the local Falkland Islands Museum.

  • Thursday, May 2nd 2024 - 06:18 UTC

    Iconic war Aircraft to be exhibited at the Falkland Islands Museum & National Trust

    A veteran Sea Harrier and Lynx await loading onto the Falklands supply ship at Marchwood Military Port in Southampton Water. Courtesy Royal Navy

    The Falkland Islands Museum & National Trust is delighted to announce the impending arrival of two additional aircraft for exhibition. Currently located at Marchwood, these aircraft are scheduled to arrive in the Falklands in early June 2024, with plans for their transportation to Stanley on or around June 14th, Liberation Day, weather permitting.

  • Thursday, February 5th 2015 - 09:18 UTC

    HMS Dragon calls at the remote Tristan da Cunha Island

    The Type 45 destroyer left Portsmouth on 27th October 2014 for a routine seven-month Atlantic Patrol Tasking deployment.

    The Royal Navy's Atlantic Patrol Tasking HMS Dragon called at Tristan da Cunha, one of the most remote islands on the planet, on the latest stage of her Atlantic deployment. There is no land to the west for more than 2,000 miles, South Africa is 1,750 miles to the east and the nearest inhabited locality is another British Overseas Territory 1,510 miles away.

  • Friday, September 23rd 2011 - 19:53 UTC

    HMS Protector ready for Antarctica; no helicopter on maiden deployment

    Admiral Sir Trevor Soar visited Protector for a day at sea

    Icebreaker HMS Protector, formerly MV Polarbjørn, has spent the spring and summer steadily being converted into a hydrographic survey ship to plug the gap left by HMS Endurance which nearly sank during a flooding incident in late 2008.

  • Friday, September 23rd 2011 - 19:34 UTC

    HMS Edinburgh in her third Atlantic crossing heads for the Falklands

    HMS Edinburgh's Lynx lands on a large boulder whilst conducting training with the South African Air Force's Super Lynx

    HMS Edinburgh following a two-week maintenance stop in Cape Town, South Africa, is again crossing the South Atlantic to the Falkland Islands. This is the third crossing since the Type 42 destroyer left the UK.

  • Tuesday, April 12th 2011 - 17:08 UTC

    The Lynx Mk3 takes off from HMS Ocean for the last time

    Since 1979 the Lynx was the backbone of the Antarctic patrol ship

    After more than 30 years’ service one of the mainstays of Britain’s Fleet Air Arm, including the Ice Patrol, has made its final appearance at sea, reports the Royal Navy. Nearly four decades to the day that the very first Lynx helicopter took to the skies, a Mk3 variant lifted off from the sprawling flight deck of HMS Ocean.