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An AH-64D tests the AGM-179 JAGM at the Yuma Proving Ground. The AH-64D Apache Longbow is equipped with a glass cockpit and advanced sensors, the most noticeable of which being the AN/APG-78 Longbow millimeter-wave fire-control radar (FCR) target acquisition system and the Radar Frequency Interferometer (RFI), housed in a dome located above the ...
The AN/APG-78 Longbow is a millimeter-wave fire-control radar (FCR) system for the AH-64D/E Apache attack helicopter. It was initially developed in the 1980s as the Airborne Adverse Weather Weapon System (AAWWS) as part of the Multi-Stage Improvement Program (MSIP) to enhance the AH-64A. [2] By 1990, both AAWWS and MSIP were renamed Longbow. [3]
The AgustaWestland Apache is a licence-built version of the Boeing AH-64D Apache Longbow attack helicopter for the British Army Air Corps.The first eight helicopters were built by Boeing; the remaining 59 were assembled by Westland Helicopters (later AgustaWestland) at Yeovil, Somerset in England from Boeing-supplied kits.
Since 2006, it operates the AH-64D Apache Longbow attack helicopter and has participated in Singapore's National Day Parade together with 127 Squadron CH-47SD Chinook for the traditional National Flag Fly Pass.
In 1989, it was decided that the Wasp squadron would be re-established at the Ramon base and receive the advanced Apache AH-64A combat helicopters. On September 11, 1990, the first two helicopters arrived in Israel and the next day first flight was carried out.
In April 2007, Boeing won a defense contract to supply Taiwan with 30 AH-64E Apache Longbow attack helicopters. On Aug. 8, Boeing was awarded a $92 million modification for that deal. So far, the ...
Charlie Company "Vampires", an AH-64D Attack Helicopter company consisting of 8 AH-64D Longbows, crews, and support personnel. Delta Company Bone Crushers Delta Company "Bone Crushers", the unit-level aviation maintenance company. Delta's primary mission is the maintenance of the helicopters in the battalion. Echo Company Dark Horse
The Lockheed Martin Arrowhead team outfitted the first eight AH-64D Apache Longbows with the new day/night vision system at The Boeing Company’s Apache production facility in Mesa, Arizona, during 2005. The Arrowhead-equipped Apache helicopters departed for Fort Hood in two flights beginning June 23, and were officially delivered on 30 June 2005.