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| | The Westland Scout, Wasp, & Lynx |
 | | The Lynx AH.1 could carry a pilot and copilot in a side-by-side cockpit, with up to ten armed or twelve unarmed troops in a cabin with minimum length, width, and height of 2.06 x 1.78 x 1.42 meters (6 feet 9 inches x 5 feet 10 inches x 4 feet 8 inches) respectively. |
 | | The Lynx 3 was a major modification, with a new, thicker tailboom that featured prominent tailfins; Gem 60-3/1 engines, with 940 kW (1,260 SHP) each; a stretched forward fuselage; wheeled high-shock tricycle landing gear to provide better crash survivability; and carriage of the US Hellfire anti-tank missile, the much improved successor to the TOW. |
 | | The Lynx is now being replaced in the anti-armor role by the Boeing / Westland WAH-64 Apache AH Mark 1 gunship, armed with the more potent Hellfire anti-armor missile, and the anti-armor Lynx will be phased out in the 2005:2010 timeframe, with the machines to be transferred to the light utility helicopter role. |
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