Hawker Siddeley HS801 Nimrod Maritime Patrol Family
The Hawker Siddeley HS801 Nimrod was a long-range jet maritime-patrol family developed from the de Havilland Comet 4C. Its new mission systems, radar, sonobuoy and weapons bay, and tail-mounted magnetic-anomaly detector supported anti-submarine and maritime surveillance operations, while later variants added signals intelligence and search-and-rescue capability for the Royal Air Force.
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Identity
- Aliases
- HS801 NimrodNimrod MR1Nimrod MR2Nimrod R1Nimrod MRA4
- Family Name
- Hawker Siddeley Nimrod
- Full Name
- Hawker Siddeley HS801 Nimrod Maritime Patrol Family
- Roles
- militaryreconnaissancesearch_and_rescue
- Status
- retired
- Type
- aircraft
Details
- Aircraft Specs
- Configuration
- fixed_wing
- Operating Modes
- land
- Takeoff Landing Capabilities
- conventional
- Description
- The Hawker Siddeley HS801 Nimrod was a long-range jet maritime-patrol family developed from the de Havilland Comet 4C. Its new mission systems, radar, sonobuoy and weapons bay, and tail-mounted magnetic-anomaly detector supported anti-submarine and maritime surveillance operations, while later variants added signals intelligence and search-and-rescue capability for the Royal Air Force.
- First Flight Year
- 1,967
- Manufacturer
- Propulsion Configurations
- Entries
- Count
- 4
- Propulsion System
- Role
- main
- Variant Notes
- Four family-level Rolls-Royce Spey turbofans for the HS801 Nimrod MR.2 branch; the source does not identify a Nimrod-specific Spey suffix, so no Spey 505/512/555/Mk 202 variant is invented.
- Name
- HS801 Nimrod MR2 Spey installation
- Notes
- BAE Systems Heritage specifies the Nimrod MR.2 with four Rolls-Royce Spey turbofans at 12,160 lbf each. This configuration is scoped to the Spey-powered HS801 MR.2 branch; the later MRA.4 branch uses separate BR710 engines and no specific Spey descendant is inferred.
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- Creation Time
- August 7, 2026 at 01:13:24 UTC
- Updated Time
- August 25, 2026 at 06:08:37 UTC