Originally Posted by
tucumseh
Thanks for that Marcantilan. Those Mk5s had some baptism. This was during the Mk2-5 conversion prgramme, and equipment development had to be stopped and production ramped up. Makes those figures all the more impressive.
The Sea King M5's new passive ASW equipment had to be removed because it was next-to-useless against a conventional submarine threat. Although it had the Sea Searcher radome, it was still fitted with the old Mk2 radar system. It's fair to say that the Sea Kings were Mk5s in name only.