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The Government of Australia has requested to buy twenty-nine (29) AH-64E Apache attack helicopters; sixty-four (64) T700-GE 701D engines (58 installed, 6 spares); twenty-nine (29) AN/ASQ-170 Modernised Target Acquisition and Designation Sight/AN/AAR-11 Modernised Pilot Night Vision Sensors (M-TADS/P...

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Published inVayu Aerospace and Defence Review no. 4; pp. 68 - 69
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published New Delhi Society for Aerospace Studies 01.07.2021
Subjects
AH-64 helicopter
Aircraft industry
Attack helicopters
Equipment costs
Federal agencies
GE engines
Inertial coordinates
Inertial navigation
Military helicopters
Military sales
Missiles
Modernization
Navigation systems
Night vision
Satellite navigation systems
Surveillance
Target acquisition
Ultrahigh frequencies
Unmanned aerial vehicles
Very high frequencies
Warning systems
Weapon systems
United Kingdom > UK
United States > US
Philippines
Australia
Germany
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Summary:The Government of Australia has requested to buy twenty-nine (29) AH-64E Apache attack helicopters; sixty-four (64) T700-GE 701D engines (58 installed, 6 spares); twenty-nine (29) AN/ASQ-170 Modernised Target Acquisition and Designation Sight/AN/AAR-11 Modernised Pilot Night Vision Sensors (M-TADS/PNVS); sixteen (16) AN/APG-78 Fire Control Radars (FCR) with Radar Electronic Units; twenty-nine (29) AN/APR-48B Modernised Radar Frequency Interferometers (MRFI); seventy (70) Embedded Global Positioning Systems with Inertial Navigation Systems plus Multi-Mode Receiver (EGI+MMR) (58 installed, 12 spares); thirty-five (35) AAR-57 Common Missile Warning Systems (CMWS) (29 installed, 6 spares); seventy (70) AN/ARC-231A Very High Frequency/Ultra High Frequency (VHF/UHF) radios (58 installed, 12 spares); eighty-five (85) AGM-114R Hellfire missiles; twenty-nine (29) M36E8 Hellfire Captive Air Training Missiles (CATM); and two thousand (2,000) Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System Guidance Sections (APKWS-GS). Boeing to boost Royal Air Force Chinook fleet US Special Operations Command awarded Boeing a $578 million Foreign Military Sales contract approved by the US Department of State to deliver 14 extendedrange Chinook helicopters to the UK Royal Air Force (RAF). Philippines to purchase AGM-84L-1 Harpoons The US State Department has made a determination approving a possible Foreign Military Sale to the Government of the Philippines ofAGM-84L-1 Harpoon Air Launched Block II Missiles and related equipment for an estimated cost of $120 million.