✦ LIBER ✦
GaAs gives Apache performance boost
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1996
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 308 KB
- Volume
- 9
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0961-1290
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✦ Synopsis
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GaAs gives Apache performance boost
The mast-mounted f/re confrol radar (FCR) of the McDonnell Douglas (MDC) AH-64D Longbow Apacho will represent the first/arge-scale military use of ram-wave components and promises substantial business for GaAs component and subsystem suppliers, TRW and Lockheed Martin / Westinghouse, respectively. In addition, the FCR will contro/the upgraded Hellfire II (AGM.11410 anti.armour missile, the main armament of the Apache, also built by Lockheed Martin. This is an autonomous fire.and-forget missile which has a seeker which uses the same Ka-band TRW power amplifier modules as the FCR. No less than 16 of which can be carried, double that of the AH-64A, see photo.