Boeing Chinook (varian UK)
Boeing Chinook adalah helikopter rotor tandem dioperasikan oleh Royal Air Force (RAF). Serangkaian varian berdasarkan Boeing CH-47 Chinook Angkatan Darat Amerika Serikat, armada Chinook RAF adalah yang terbesar di luar Amerika Serikat.
RAF Chinooks telah melihat layanan yang luas termasuk pertempuran dalam Perang Falklands, perdamaian komitmen dalam Balkan, dan tindakan dalam perang Irak dan Afghanistan.
Referensi
- Burden, Rodney A (1986). Falklands – The Air War. London: Arms and Armour Press. ISBN 0-85368-842-7.
- Clements, Frank (2003). Conflict in Afghanistan: a historical encyclopedia. ABC-CLIO. ISBN 1-85109-402-4.
- Ethell, Jeffrey (1983). Air War South Atlantic. London: Sidgwick and Jackson. ISBN 0-283-99035-X.
- Great Britain: Parliament (2006). Delivering Front Line Capability to the RAF: Third Report of Session 2005–06. London: House of Commons: Defence Committee. ISBN 0-215-02694-2.
- Great Britain: Parliament (2009). Helicopter capability: eleventh report of session 2008–09. London: House of Commons: Defence Committee. ISBN 0-215-54002-6. Diarsipkan dari versi asli tanggal 2012-11-12. Diakses tanggal 2013-09-07.
- Lowry, Richard S (2003). The Gulf War Chronicles: A Military History of the First War With Iraq. London: iUniverse. ISBN 0-595-29669-6.
Pranala luar
Wikimedia Commons memiliki media mengenai CH-47 Chinook.
- RAF Chinook HC2/2A/3 page Diarsipkan 2015-01-02 di Wayback Machine. and Chinook HC2 fact sheet on raf.mod.uk Diarsipkan 2008-04-09 di Wayback Machine.
- CH-47D/F page on Boeing.com
- British Chinooks on armedforces.co.uk
- Chinook-helicopter.com
- Bravo November in the Falklands Diarsipkan 2014-02-06 di Wayback Machine.
- Video of a Chinook HC2 ZA680 rescuing a Sea King helicopter
- Images and information on the RAF Chinook fleet
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