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Posted on 12/04/2004 10:53:24 PM PST by snippy_about_it
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 USA The Apache is a twin-engined army attack helicopter developed by McDonnell Douglas (now Boeing). It entered service with the US Army in 1984 and has been exported to Egypt, Greece, Israel, the Netherlands, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates and the United Kingdom. The US Army has more than 800 Apaches in service and more than 1,000 have been exported. The Apache was first used in combat in 1989 in the US military action in Panama. It was used in Operation Desert Storm and has supported low intensity and peacekeeping operations worldwide including Turkey, Bosnia and Kosovo. The AH-64D Longbow has been deployed by the US Army in Afghanistan as part of Operation Anaconda, in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom and, from June 2003, in South Korea.  An Apache Longbow armed with 16 Hellfire missiles, eight under each wing. The AH-64D Longbow is fitted with the Longbow millimetre wave fire control radar and the Longbow Hellfire missile. 300 AH-64Ds are in service with the US Army out of a total of 501 procured - 232 new build 269 US Army AH-64A Apaches being upgraded to AH-64D standard. Deliveries are to complete in 2006. The Longbow has also been ordered by the Netherlands (30, deliveries complete), Singapore (20, first delivered in May 2002), Israel (eight) and Egypt (35). A number of AH-64A helicopters have been upgraded to AH-64D standard for South Korea. The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has requested the upgrade of 30 Apaches to AH-64D longbow standard.  The Apache has been designed for high survivability in combat. In August 2001, the AH-64D was selected by the Japanese Ground Self-Defence Force, with a requirement for 60 helicopters, and in September 2002, Kuwait ordered 16 AH-64D helicopters for delivery from 2005. The Kuwaiti Apaches will be equipped with BAE Systems HIDAS defensive aids system. In September 2003, Greece signed a contract for 12 AH-64D Longbow, with an option on a further four. The first of the upgraded Block II Apaches was delivered to the US Army in February 2003. Block II includes upgrades to the digital communications systems to improve communications within the "tactical internet". Block III improvements, slated for 2008 on, include increasing digitisation, capability to control UAVs and new composite rotor blade.  WAH 64 A consortium of GKN Westland (now AgustaWestland), Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman and Shorts bid a version of the Longbow Apache for the UK Army attack helicopter requirement which was selected in July 1995. Assembly of the WAH-64 Longbow Apache is being carried out in the UK by AgustaWestland. The first helicopter entered service in January 2001 designated as the AH Mk 1.67 are on order for the British Army with final delivery scheduled for 2004. Initial Operating Capability is scheduled for late 2004.  The M230 provides a fire rate of 625 rounds per minute. WEAPONS A 30mm automatic Boeing M230 Chain Gun is located under the fuselage. It provides a rate of fire of 625 rounds per minute. The helicopter has capacity for up to 1,200 rounds of ammunition. The AH-64D is armed with the Lockheed Martin/Boeing AGM-114D Longbow Hellfire air-to-surface missile which has a millimetre wave seeker which allows the missile to perform in full fire and forget mode. Range is 8km to 12km. The Apache has been equipped with air-to-air missiles (Stinger, AIM-9 Sidewinder, Mistral and Sidearm) and 2.75in rockets. Thales Air Defence (formerly Shorts Missile Systems) of Belfast, Northern Ireland has trialled the Starstreak missile on the Longbow Apache helicopter, integrated with the Target Acquisition Designation Sight (TADS).  The Longbow Apache carries the combination of armaments chosen for the particular mission. In the close support role the helicopter carries 16 Hellfire missiles on four 4-rail launchers and four air-to-air missiles. SENSORS The AH-64D Longbow Apache is equipped with the Northrop Grumman millimetre-wave Longbow radar. The Longbow fire control radar incorporates an integrated radar frequency interferometer for passive location and identification of radar emitting threats. An advantage of millimetre wave is that it performs under poor visibility conditions and is less sensitive to ground clutter. The short wavelength allows a very narrow beamwidth which is resistant to countermeasures.  The AH-64D Longbow Apache entered service with the 1st Battalion of the 227th Aviation Regiment in October 1998. The Longbow Apache can effect an attack in thirty seconds. The radar dome is unmasked for a single radar scan and then remasked. The processors determine the location, speed and direction of travel of a maximum of 256 targets. The Target Acquisition Designation Sight, TADS (AN/ASQ-170) and the Pilot Night Vision Sensor, PNVS (AN/AAQ-11) were developed by Lockheed Martin. The turret-mounted TADS provides direct view optics, television and three fields of view forward looking infra-red (FLIR) to carry out search, detection and recognition and Litton laser rangefinder/designator. PNVS consists of a FLIR in a rotating turret located on the nose above the TADS. The image from the PNVS is displayed in the monocular eyepiece of the Honeywell integrated Helmet And Display Sighting System, HADDS, worn by the pilot and co-pilot/gunner.  Apache firing one of its Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System (APKWS), formerly known as Hydra, 70mm rockets. Lockheed Martin has developed a new targeting and night vision system for the Apache, called Arrowhead. Arrowhead has a dual field-of-view second-generation long-wave infrared sensor with improved range and resolution. The new system is planned to enter service with the US Army in 2004. COUNTERMEASURES  Near Real-Time situational awareness schematic. The Apache is equipped with an electronic warfare suite consisting of: AN/APR-39A(V) radar warning receiver from Northrop Grumman (formerly Litton) and Lockheed Martin; AN/ALQ-144 infra-red countermeasures set from BAE Systems IEWS (formerly Sanders, a Lockheed Martin company); AN/AVR-2 laser warning receiver from Goodrich (formerly Hughes Danbury Optical Systems then Raytheon); AN/ALQ-136(V) radar jammer developed by ITT; and chaff dispensers. US Army Longbow Apaches were to be fitted with the ITT AN/ALQ-211 SIRCM (Suite of Integrated Radio Frequency Countermeasures) suite, however the availability of funding for this project is uncertain. UK AH Mk 1 Apaches will have BAE Systems Helicopter Integrated Defensive Aids Suite (HIDAS), also chosen by Kuwait. HIDAS, which includes the Sky Guardian 2000 radar warning receiver, entered service on the AH Mk 1 in July 2003.  The AD-64D Apache Longbow is the most lethal, survivable, deployable and maintainable multimission helicopter in the world. ENGINES The Apache is equipped with two turboshaft engines each providing 1,265kW. The American AH-64D has General Electric T700-GE-701 engines and the UK Apache is fitted with RTM322 engines from Rolls-Royce/Turbomeca.  British Army Longbow Apaches are equipped with CRV7 70mm rocket systems.      |
Notice the very large number of "AN/PVS" type machinery installed. This equipment is tightly integrated digitally through a computer network of three servers. The software is C running in a Unix variant.
Enough said.
Good morning, Snippy and everyone at the Foxhole.
Helicopters don't fly, they vibrate so bad that the earth repels 'em Sunday ping for the Freeper Foxhole.
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Morning Iris7.
Morning E.G.C.
Who won the game yesterday?
Morning alfa6.
I heard they didn't fly, they just beat the air into submission.
2004 Big 12 Champions.
OU 42, Colorado 3
Good morning.
Way cool picture!
Read: Job 42:1-6
Shall the one who contends with the Almighty correct Him? —Job 40:2
Bible In One Year: Daniel 1-2; 1 John 4
Just before Christmas 2003, Lydia came home from work to the sight of flames shooting out of her house. She was devastated by more than the loss of her home—seven of her family members died in the flames. When news about the tragedy spread that morning, a deacon from her church rushed to comfort her. She had some deep questions for him, but he had no answers.
Lydia could relate to Job's story. He lost all 10 of his children (Job 1:18-19), yet he continued to worship God (v.21). Then his health was affected, and his wife urged him to curse God and die (2:9). Job's friends thought they had the answer—he must have sinned and deserved his troubles.
Job complained bitterly to the Lord and pleaded for an explanation and relief, but God didn't give him any answers. He didn't even tell him about Satan's request to test him (1:6-12; 2:1-6). Instead, He reminded Job that He was the all-wise God and that Job was not. Job was humbled, and he repented for having questioned God's authority (42:1-6).
This side of heaven, we may not find answers for our desperate questions of "Why did this happen?" and "Why me?" But we can rest in the truth that God is in control and that He loves us. —Anne Cetas
On This Day In History
Birthdates which occurred on December 05:
1839 George Armstrong Custer, of Little Big Horn fame
1894 Phillip K. Wrigley (corporate executive: Wrigley Gum)
1901 Walter (Walt) Elias Disney (cartoonist, producer: Mickey Mouse, Disneyland, Walt Disney World, feature films, animation)
1901 Werner Heisenberg, discoverer of uncertainty principle (Nobel 1932) (or not)
1902 Strom Thurmond, (D/R-Sen-SC)
1903 Cecil Frank Powell, English physicist discovered pion (Nobel 1950) (I like pion a plate)
1905 Otto Preminger, movie director producer (Laura Exodus)
1922 Don Robertson (composer, musician)
1924 Maggie (Margaret) Hayes (actress)
1932 Jim Hurtubise (auto racer)
1932 'Little' Richard (Pennimann) (singer: Good Golly Miss Molly, Tutti Frutti; preacher)
1936 Chad Mitchell (singer Chad Mitchell trio)
1938 J.D. (John Delphus) McDuffie (auto racer)
1947 Jim Messina (musician: duo: Loggins and Messina: Your Mama Don't Dance)
1947 Jim Plunkett (football: Raiders quarterback: Super Bowl: XV, XVIII)
1947 Jugderdemidyin Gurragcha, 1st Mongolian space traveler (Soyuz 39)
1949 Lanny Wadkins (golf: PGA champion [1977])
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."
Albert Einstein
"Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value."
Albert Einstein
"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind."
Albert Einstein
Some of my favorite quotes of his.
Off to chuch...back later.
Be Good....you really should try it at least once.:-)
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