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First deployment for AW159 Wildcat

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The AW159 Wildcat is deploying for the first time, HMS Lancaster left Portsmouth on Mar. 28 for a nine-month tour.

Royal Navy Wildcat Helicopter MOD 45158434
Photo: PO(Phot) Si Ethell/MOD [OGL], via Wikimedia Commons

201 Flight will operate the rotorcraft during this period which will take the ship to eighteen countries in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.

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