Sea King News |
Sea King Flypast Ends 49 Years of Service
25-Sep-18 - Royal Navy retires their last Sea King, the Mk7 ASAC, with a 849 Squadron 3-hour flypast. Will be replaced by the Merlin Crowsnest next year #SeaKing
Royal Navy Announced Crowsnest Contract
16-Jan-17 - UK Minister for Defence announced £269M deal for new helicopter-borne Airborne Early Warning (AEW) and control surveillance system for the new Queen Elizabeth Class aircraft carriers. Crowsnest will be provided by Lockheed Martin and Thales #Crowsnest
Thales Radar for the Royal Navy Merlin AEW Variant
22-May-15 - Lockheed Martin UK, as the prime contractor for Crowsnest, have selected Thales as the chosen bidder to provide the radar and mission system for the Merlin Airborne Early Warning (AEW) variant
Royal Navy Sea Kings 5 years in Afghan skies
04-Jun-14 - UK Forces have been deployed in Afghanistan since 2002 under Operation Herrick pushing back the Taliban and preventing them from using the country as a base for terrorism
ASaC.7 return from Libya
27-Sep-11 - Navy fliers who paved the way for Apache helicopter strikes against Colonel Gaddafi’s forces are safely home. Derivatives & Versions of Sea King |
| Model | Year | History |
|---|---|---|
| Sea King ASaC.7 2002 | 2002 | The original ARI5930/3 Searchwater radar and its display systems of the AEW.2 and AEW.2A were showing their age and technical deficiencies led to ...  The Sea King ASaC.7 was retired from UK service (with 849 NAS) at the end of Sep 2018. That left the UK Armed Forces with another capability gap, ... |
| Sea King HC.6 2006 | 2006 | As the Merlin HM.1 became more widespread amongst the UK anti-submarine community, the Sea King HAS.6 it was replacing were displaced from front ... |
| Sea King HC.4+ 2007 | 2007 | By 2007 it was looking like the CHF Sea King HC.4 would be called on to operate in Afghanistan in support of Operation Herrick. Changes were need ... |
List of Operators of Sea King |
| Years | Model | Org | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2002/18 | Sea King ASaC.7 |  Fleet Air Arm |
Construction Numbers |
| C/N | Built as | Year | History | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| wa 887 | has.5 | 1980 | ZA126 | |
