{"id":467355,"date":"2026-03-10T07:27:28","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T07:27:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/467355\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T07:27:28","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T07:27:28","slug":"cornwall-based-rnas-culdrose-merlin-helicopter-deployed-to-cyprus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/467355\/","title":{"rendered":"Cornwall-based RNAS Culdrose Merlin helicopter deployed to Cyprus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Royal Navy said the helicopter had a &#8220;powerful radar and mission system&#8221; which would provide a &#8220;defence against aerial threats&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It said it could fly at a height of one mile (1.6km) and would give advance warning of incoming drones or missiles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hall said the 820 Naval Air Squadron had &#8220;experience of providing force protection from similar threats, having deployed ASaC [Crowsnest Airborne Surveillance and Control] aircraft on active operations in the Red Sea last year during the transits of the carrier strike group led by HMS Prince of Wales during Operation Highmast&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said the helicopter would compliment &#8220;the defensive measures&#8221; provided by both the Wildcat aircraft and HMS Dragon and would add &#8220;a layered capability for the protection of UK forces.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Royal Navy said the helicopter had a &#8220;powerful radar and mission system&#8221; which would provide a &#8220;defence&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":467356,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-467355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=467355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467355\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/467356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}