Norway’s selection of the AgustaWestland AW101 for its NAWSARH search and rescue requirement is a major shot in the arm for the manufacturer’s Yeovil, UK plant. Announced on 19 December, the order is ...

UK defence officials have quietly extended the out-of-service date for the Royal Navy’s (RN’s) Leonardo Helicopters AW101 Merlin rotorcraft under plans that will now see the heavy, three-engined type ...

The first of four AW101 Merlin ASW helicopters arrived in Poland on 7 August. (Polish Armament Agency) Poland has begun receiving the Leonardo AW101 Merlin helicopters it ordered in 2019 to satisfy ...

The UK Royal Navy is looking to upgrade the search radars of its 30 Merlin HM2 helicopters as it seeks to extend the type's service life out to 2040. (Janes/Patrick Allen) The UK Royal Navy (RN) is to ...

LONDON—Leonardo Helicopters and Lockheed Martin have both been awarded contracts to begin assessing the scope of a life-extension program for the UK Royal Navy’s fleet of AW101 Merlin helicopters. The ...

The Royal Norwegian Air Force’s new fleet of Leonardo AW101 search-and-rescue (SAR) helicopters can communicate, send text messages and switch between 3G and 4G networks similar to the way the average ...

U.K. Royal Air Force crash investigators are in El Centro, Calif., examining the wreckage of an AW101 Merlin HC3 medium helicopter that crashed at a nearby airfield being used for night landing ...

WARSAW, Aug 10 (Reuters) - Poland is seeking to negotiate for the purchase of 22 AW101 helicopters produced by PZL-Swidnik, the Polish unit of Italy's state-controlled defence and aerospace group ...