Tue, May 10, 2005
Lockheed Martin, on
behalf of Team Apache Systems LLC, will (ceremonially) deliver its
first Modernized Target Acquisition and Designation Sight/Pilot
Night Vision Sensor (M-TADS/PNVS), also known as Arrowhead, for the
Apache AH-64 helicopter to the U.S. Army later today, May 10, 2005,
during the Army Aviation Association of America's national
convention in Orlando, FL.
Lockheed Martin's Arrowhead kit provides an advanced
electro-optical targeting and pilotage system to Apache crews that
will maximize safe flight in day, night and adverse-weather
environments.
Arrowhead continues a 20-year legacy of serving as the eyes of
the Army's Apache AH-64 attack helicopter with the first fielding
of the current TADS/PNVS in 1983. Arrowhead's newly designed
forward-looking infrared (FLIR) sensors use cutting-edge image
processing techniques to give pilots the best possible resolution
to avoid obstacles such as wires and tree limbs during low-level
flight. The roll-out of the first Arrowhead kit in an M-TADS system
under the Lot 1 contract comes almost twenty-three years to the day
of signing the first TADS/PNVS production contract. Several retired
officers from the 1983 contract signing were present today to
witness the second generation fielding of the original system.
Arrowhead improves performance and reliability of the legacy
TADS system by over 150%, reduces maintenance actions by nearly
60%, and enables two-level field maintenance—achieving a
savings that approaches $1 billion in Army operation and support
costs over the anticipated 20-year lifespan.
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