一架英国空军“灰背隼”HC3 直升机在“沙漠旋风-2010”演习中，这是“灰背隼”首次在中东沙漠环境下训练，为部署阿富汗做准备。（Royal Air Force Merlin helicopters soar over Jordan during Exercise Desert Vortex. 250 Royal Air Force personnel from RAF Odiham and RAF Benson undertook a training exercise in the Middle Eastern country. It was the first time that 6 Chinook and 3 Merlin helicopters had trained together in a desert environment, as their crews prepared for deployment to Afghanistan.）

一架英国空军“灰背隼”HC3 直升机在“沙漠旋风-2010”演习中，这是“灰背隼”首次在中东沙漠环境下训练，为部署阿富汗做准备。（Royal Air Force Merlin helicopters soar over Jordan during Exercise Desert Vortex. 250 Royal Air Force personnel from RAF Odiham and RAF Benson undertook a training exercise in the Middle Eastern country. It was the first time that 6 Chinook and 3 Merlin helicopters had trained together in a desert environment, as their crews prepared for deployment to Afghanistan.）

二架英国空军“灰背隼”HC3 直升机在“沙漠旋风-2010”演习中编队飞行，这是“灰背隼”首次在中东沙漠环境下训练，为部署阿富汗做准备。（Royal Air Force Merlin helicopters soar over Jordan during Exercise Desert Vortex. 250 Royal Air Force personnel from RAF Odiham and RAF Benson undertook a training exercise in the Middle Eastern country. It was the first time that 6 Chinook and 3 Merlin helicopters had trained together in a desert environment, as their crews prepared for deployment to Afghanistan.）

一架英国空军“灰背隼”HC3 直升机在“沙漠旋风-2010”演习中从沙尘中起飞，这是“灰背隼”首次在中东沙漠环境下训练，为部署阿富汗做准备。（A Royal Air Force Merlin helicopter takes off in a cloud of dust during Exercise Desert Vortex in Jordan. 250 Royal Air Force personnel from RAF Odiham and RAF Benson undertook a training exercise in the Middle Eastern country. It was the first time that 6 Chinook and 3 Merlin helicopters had trained together in a desert environment, as their crews prepared for deployment to Afghanistan.）

一架英国空军“灰背隼”HC3 直升机在“沙漠旋风-2010”演习中，这是“灰背隼”首次在中东沙漠环境下训练，为部署阿富汗做准备。（A Royal Air Force Merlin helicopter soars over Jordan during Exercise Desert Vortex. 250 Royal Air Force personnel from RAF Odiham and RAF Benson undertook a training exercise in the Middle Eastern country. It was the first time that 6 Chinook and 3 Merlin helicopters had trained together in a desert environment, as their crews prepared for deployment to Afghanistan.）

一架英国空军“灰背隼”HC3 直升机在“沙漠旋风-2010”演习中，这是“灰背隼”首次在中东沙漠环境下训练，为部署阿富汗做准备。（A Royal Air Force Merlin helicopter soars over Jordan during Exercise Desert Vortex. 250 Royal Air Force personnel from RAF Odiham and RAF Benson undertook a training exercise in the Middle Eastern country. It was the first time that 6 Chinook and 3 Merlin helicopters had trained together in a desert environment, as their crews prepared for deployment to Afghanistan.）

一架英国空军“灰背隼”HC3 直升机在“沙漠旋风-2010”演习中飞越约旦沙漠机场跑道，这是“灰背隼”首次在中东沙漠环境下训练，为部署阿富汗做准备。（A Royal Air Force Merlin helicopter soars over Jordan during Exercise Desert Vortex. 250 Royal Air Force personnel from RAF Odiham and RAF Benson undertook a training exercise in the Middle Eastern country. It was the first time that 6 Chinook and 3 Merlin helicopters had trained together in a desert environment, as their crews prepared for deployment to Afghanistan.）

英国海军2008年“游隼杯”摄影大赛参赛照片，一架“灰背隼”直升机在北约“Noble Mariner”演习中准备从“皇家方舟号”航空母舰上起飞。摄影师刻意突出地勤人员的背心色彩，其他部分都调成黑白色。（A Merlin helicopter is shown taking off from the deck of HMS Ark Royal during the NATO Exercise Noble Mariner. NATO Forces participated in three closely linked rigorous training exercises, Exercise Noble Mariner, Kindred Sword and Noble Award to test their combat readiness for NATO's high readiness military force, the NATO Response Force (NRF). The three exercises took place simultaneously in the North Sea, Kattegat, Danish Straits and in the Southern Baltic Sea. The fictitious scenario required NATO forces to deploy the NRF to a Joint Operations Area (JOA), off the coast of Poland, in response to an escalating conflict inside a divided country.）

英国海军2013年“游隼杯”摄影大赛参赛照片，海军“灰背隼”直升机飞越一艘“萨瑟兰”号护卫舰。（A Merlin helicopter from HMS Ark Royal hovers in the foreground whilst the Duke Class Type 23 Frigate HMS Sutherland, sails past behind.）

英国海军2013年“游隼杯”摄影大赛参赛照片，海军“灰背隼”直升机在英格兰南部参加演习时飞越德文郡海岸。（A Royal Navy Merlin helicopter taking part in an exercise over the south of England. Merlin Mk1 – the world’s most potent submarine hunting helicopter. The Merlin Mk1 have been in service with the Fleet Air Arm since the late 1990s and, after thorough testing and evaluation, the helicopters have been on the front line since 2000. Our job is to find – and if necessary destroy – enemy submarines using our state-of-the-art sonar buoys which we drop into the ocean and Sting Ray torpedoes. Beyond searching for submarines, we carry out traditional maritime helicopter duties: anti-piracy/drug-running patrols, surveillance and reconnaissance, search and rescue, and passenger and load transfers. There are more than 40 Merlins in service with the Fleet Air Arm in training and front-line squadrons. Most of these are in the middle of a £750m upgrade to turn the Merlin Mk1 into the Merlin Mk2 which has more powerful computer systems and is easier for aircrew to operate. This image was an entry to the Peregrine Trophy 2013 Royal Navy Photographic Competition.）