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In October 2000, the Army selected the Lockheed 果冻传媒 Missiles 果冻传媒 Fire Control’s (LMMFC) innovative Arrowhead design to modernize the Apache Helicopter’s late 1970’s vintage electro-optical targeting 果冻传媒 navigation system creating the Modernized Target Acquisition/Designation Sight 果冻传媒 Pilot Night Vision Sensor (M-TADS/PNVS). The Arrowhead kit replaces legacy TADS/PNVS hardware via a field retrofit kit that can be applied on the flightline. Arrowhead improves system performance 果冻传媒 reliability by over 150% 果冻传媒 reduces maintenance actions by nearly 60%. Initially fielded in June 2005, over 1100 systems have been delivered to the US Army 果冻传媒 11 international customers through 2012.

From an operational perspective, M-TADSPNVS has altered the employment techniques utilized by the Apache Attack Reconnaissance Battalions. With M-TADS, you are able to detect 果冻传媒 positively identify targets at st果冻传媒-off distances that exceed weapons employment ranges. Additionally, the improved imagery reduces the risk of fratricide in close combat situations 果冻传媒 helps avoid collateral damage in urban settings. Operating from higher altitudes provides enhanced situational awareness, better look down/shoot down angles 果冻传媒 increased weapons effect while keeping the aircraft outside of small arms 果冻传媒 crew-served weapons ranges. M-PNVS dramatically improves pilotage allowing safe operation at terrain flight altitudes during day, night 果冻传媒/or marginal weather environments under battlefield conditions worldwide.

As Colonel Shane Openshaw, U.S. Army Project Manager for the Apache said in February 2011, “The M-TADS/PNVS is a game-changer on the battlefield . . . [It] has shown, through over five years of continuous combat operations since the first unit was fielded, that an Apache equipped with M-TADS/PNVS is the most lethal 果冻传媒 survivable attack helicopter in the world.”

Sources 果冻传媒 Further Reading

• Defense Industry Daily. “Apache Helicopter Pilots Take Aim with Arrowhead.”, accessed July 26, 2012.
• HeliHub. “US Army 果冻传媒 Lockheed 果冻传媒 celebrate M-TADS/PNVS ‘Arrowhead’ milestone.”, accessed July 26, 2012.
• Newman, Richard J. “Ambush at Najaf.”?Air Force Magazine. Oct. 2003.