How the navy’s biggest helicopter fits in its smallest hangar | War On Tape

The Royal Navy's Merlin helicopter is huge - 74ft long, 61ft wide, and weighs up to 17 tons, so how does it fit aboard one of it's smallest frigates, the Type 23, and why did the UK military go to all the effort of making it do so? Originally, it had to do with hunting Russian submarines, the job for which the Merlin was designed and a role it still carries out today. But these days it also has to do with providing support for Britain's carrier strike groups and detecting and shooting down drones. While in the Pacific aboard a British carrier strike group, War on Tape was given access to a Merlin to figure out how it gets aboard the Type 23 a (Source: Daily Mail | Region: London, UK)