A Lynx Wildcat helicopter has completed 20 days of sea trials aboard the British frigate HMS Iron Duke in waters off southern England and northern Scotland.It was the newest in a series of trials required prior to the 㾼 million state-of-the-art combat aircraft can enter into active service with the British Army and the Royal Navy. The latest tests involved placing the helicopter by way of tests that involved more than 400 day and nighttime take offs and landings from the Iron Duke in the worst weather circumstances that could be located to put the mission systems, night-vision equipment and navigation systems through their paces…
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