High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The AgustaWestland AW159 Lynx Wildcat is an improved version of the Westland Super Lynx military helicopter. The AW159 will serve in the battlefield utility, search and rescue and anti-submarine warfare roles. The helicopter has been ordered for the British Army and Royal Navy. It is to enter service with the Army in 2014 and with the RN in 2015. On 22 June 2006, the UK Ministry of Defence awarded AgustaWestland a 1 billion contract for 70 Future Lynx helicopters as a commitment under the Strategic Partnering Arrangement with AgustaWestland. The programme envisaged providing the British Army and Royal Navy with 40 and 30 aircraft respectively, with an option for a further 10, split equally between Army and Navy. In December 2008 the MoD announced that contract would go forward and the order was reduced to 62. On 24 April 2009, the Future Lynx was renamed the AW159, and would be known in British military service as the Lynx Wildcat. The first Lynx Wildcat first flew from Yeovil on 12 November 2009, with initial deliveries of the type expected in 2011.

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