page_title: Westland Wasp
section_title: Variants
hierarchical_section_title: Westland Wasp / Variants
caption_attribution_description: English: Westland Wasp HAS.1 helicopter, drawn using XaraX software.
context_page_description: The Westland Wasp was a small 1960s British turbine powered, shipboard anti-submarine helicopter. Produced by Westland Helicopters, it came from the same P.531 programme as the British Army Westland Scout, and was based on the earlier piston-engined Saunders-Roe Skeeter. It fulfilled the requirement of the Royal Navy for a helicopter small enough to land on the deck of a frigate and carry a useful load of two homing torpedoes.
  The Wasp sunk one ship in combat, seriously damaging the ARA Santa Fe submarine in 1982 during the Falklands war.
context_section_description: Sea Scout HAS.1
  The Sea Scout HAS.1 was the original Royal Navy designation for the Wasp.
  Wasp HAS.1
  Shipboard anti-submarine warfare helicopter for the Royal Navy.
caption: Westland Wasp HAS.1
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