First Longbow Fire Control Radar Successfully Flown on Apache Block III Prototype

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First Longbow Fire Control Radar Successfully Flown on Apache Block III Prototype
UNITED STATES - 6 APRIL 2009

BALTIMORE, April 6, 2009 -- The Longbow Limited Liability Company, a joint venture of Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC) and Lockheed Martin (NYSE:LMT), recently marked the first successful powered flight of the Radar Electronics Unit (REU) configuration of the Longbow Fire Control Radar (FCR) onboard an AH-64D Apache Block III prototype attack helicopter.

The Longbow Fire Control Radar system enables the Apache Longbow to rapidly search, detect, locate, classify, prioritize and engage both moving and stationary targets. The advanced REU improves power ratios and provides built-in processor expansion growth for new operating modes that will expand the Apache's role and missions. The REU is a key capability that will be integrated on all Apache Block III aircraft. One of its design features is that it may be installed to operate on Apache Block I or Block II aircraft with appropriate modifications, in addition to the Block III aircraft.

"The Longbow REU configuration is a significant capability advancement for the Longbow Apache AH-64D, the most versatile attack helicopter in the world," said Steve Considine, Longbow LLC vice-president and director of Longbow Aviation Programs at Northrop Grumman's Land Forces Division. "The REU's design preserves the two-level maintenance concept, lowers operations and supportability costs and improves reliability three fold, all while reducing the size and weight of the radar electronics on the Apache by half."

The Longbow system, as currently configured by the U.S. Army, consists of: the Longbow fire control radar; the AGM-114L fire-and-forget radar frequency Longbow Hellfire millimeter wave-guided missile, the all-digital M299 launcher and the AN/APR-48A Radio Frequency Interferometer for the AH-64 Apache helicopter. The Longbow REU configuration will be fielded on the Apache Block III aircraft beginning in 2011.




Source: Northrop Grumman

 

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ATK Awarded $86 Million Contract to Produce LW30mm M789 HEDP
UNITED STATES - 3 AUGUST 2009

LW30mm Provides Firepower for Apache Helicopters

Alliant Techsystems (NYSE: ATK) has been awarded an $86 million, base with option, contract to provide lightweight (LW) 30mm M789 High Explosive Dual Purpose (HEDP) tactical ammunition for the AH-64D Apache attack helicopter. The U.S. Army Contracting Command, Rock Island Contracting Center, Rock Island, Ill., awarded the contract. Production will begin in December 2009 at the company's facilities in Elk River, MN, Radford, Va., and Rocket Center, W.Va.

ATK produces more than eight million rounds of medium-caliber ammunition per year, including the revolutionary air-bursting rounds it developed for the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps, and a complete suite of ammunition for ATK's new LW 25mm chain gun. The company is a world leader in integrated medium-caliber systems that include medium-caliber cannons, ammunition and electronics and fire control, delivering affordable and innovative technology to meet the emerging needs and requirements of our customers.


Source: Alliant Tech Systems, Inc

 

[MZUBAIR]

WAhoooooooooo.................USA is uphead in technology......no one can easily beat them in tech

 

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WAhoooooooooo.................USA is uphead in technology......no one can easily beat them in tech

The more appropriate word usage is "The Military Industrial Complex" located currently in the "uu es of ay"

as for their being advanced, its not something to be amazed about but rather something that sickens to the bone It is a parasitic super leecher phenomenon where it not only feeds on the blood of the people of the country where it is located through heavy heavy taxes but also feeds voraciously on the blood of the innocent humanity of the whole world. The lonely starved and malnourished orphans of Africa that we see are just one example of this phenomenon and its list of feats goes on and on and one

 

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The more appropriate word usage is "The Military Industrial Complex" located currently in the "uu es of ay"

as for their being advanced, its not something to be amazed about but rather something that sickens to the bone It is a parasitic super leecher phenomenon where it not only feeds on the blood of the people of the country where it is located through heavy heavy taxes but also feeds voraciously on the blood of the innocent humanity of the whole world. The lonely starved and malnourished orphans of Africa that we see are just one example of this phenomenon and its list of feats goes on and on and one

Sounds like petty jealousy to me.



Since when is the US responsible to repair the problems of the world? Just because we are wealthy enough to afford to have a 'military-industrial complex?