Westland Wasp

The Westland Wasp is a small 1960s British turbine powered, shipboard anti-submarine helicopter. Produced by Westland Helicopters, it came from the same P.531 program as the British Army Westland Scout, and is based on the earlier piston engine Saunders-Roe Skeeter. It fulfilled the requirement of the Royal Navy for a helicopter small enough to land on the deck of a frigate and carry a useful load of two homing torpedoes.

The Wasp sank one ship in combat, seriously damaging the ARA Santa Fe submarine in 1982 during the Falklands war.

McDonnell Douglas (Mitsubishi) F-4EJ Kai Phantom II, JASDF

Source: Jeroen Bos

F-100C of 120th FS at Phan Rang AB, South Vietnam, 1968.  

Nord Gerfaut (Gyrfalcon) prototype 

Original Caption: “Ching Chaun Kang AB, Taiwan…Rear view of a Chinese Nationalist air force F-104 aircraft taking off with a Dart tow target slung under its wing.”

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