The sale of 96 AH-64E assault helicopters to Poland is price about 12 billion USD.
The U.S. State Division has cleared the potential sale of AH-64E Apache assault helicopters and associated tools to Poland, as a part of a deal price about 12B USD, the DSCA (Protection Safety Cooperation Company) notified the U.S. Congress on Aug. 21, 2023.
As ordinary, the approval, that comes nearly one 12 months after the Polish MoD sent an LOR (Letter of Request) to the US, concerning the potential procurement of 96 AH-64E Apache Guardians for the Military aviation items, doesn’t imply {that a} contract has been signed or that negotiations have concluded.
The accepted package deal consists of additionally 1,844 AGM-114R2 Hellfire Missiles, 460 AGM-179A Joint Air-to-Floor Missiles (JAGMs); 506 Stinger 92K Block I Missiles; and seven,650 WGU-59/B Superior Precision Kill Weapon System II (APKWS-II) Steering Sections (GS).
Right here’s the full detail:
The Authorities of Poland has requested to purchase ninety-six (96) AH-64E Apache Assault Helicopters; 2 hundred ten (210) T700-GE 701D engines (192 put in, 18 spares); ninety-seven (97) AN/ASQ-170 Modernized Goal Acquisition and Designation Sight/AN/AAR-11 Modernized Pilot Evening Imaginative and prescient Sensors (M-TADS/PNVS) (96 put in, 1 spare); thirty-seven (37) AN/APG-78 Hearth Management Radars (FCR) Mast Mounted Meeting (MMA) (36 put in, 1 spare); thirty-seven (37) Longbow Hearth Management Radar (FCR) Radar Digital Models (REU), (36 put in, 1 spare); ninety-six (96) AN/APR-48B Modernized Radar Frequency Interferometers (MRFI); 100 two (102) AN/AAR-57 Widespread Missile Warning Techniques (CMWS) (96 put in, 6 spares); 2 hundred 4 (204) AN/ARC-231A, with RT-1987 Receiver Transmitters, Very Excessive Frequency/Extremely Excessive Frequency (VHF/UHF) radios (192 put in, 12 spares); one thousand eight hundred forty-four (1,844) AGM-114R2 Hellfire Missiles; ninety-six (96) M36E8 Hellfire Captive Air Coaching Missiles (CATM); 4 hundred sixty (460) AGM-179A Joint Air-to-Floor Missiles (JAGM); 5 hundred eight (508) Stinger 92K Block I Missiles; and 7 thousand 600 fifty (7,650) WGU-59/B Superior Precision Kill Weapon System II (APKWS-II) Steering Sections (GS).
Additionally included are Radar Sign Detecting Units; Laser Detecting Units; Identification Buddy or Foe (IFF) transponders; Improved Information Modems; Small Tactical Terminals; Improved Countermeasure Allotting Techniques (ICMD); Computerized Course Finders; Doppler Radar Velocity Sensors; Radar Altimeter Widespread Cores (RACC); Tactical Air Navigation Set (TACAN); World Positioning System (GPS) receivers; Easy Key Loader; Superior Weapon System Computerized Machine Weapons; rocket launchers; missile launchers; rockets; ammunition; Manned-Unmanned Teaming (MUMT) Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) Receiver; MUMT Air-Air-Floor kits; coaching gadgets; communication techniques; helmets; simulators; turbines; aircrew survivability tools; transportation and group tools; spare and restore components; help tools; instruments and take a look at tools; technical information and publications; personnel coaching and coaching tools; U.S. Authorities and contractor technical help; technical and logistics help providers; and different associated components of program and logistical help. The estimated whole value is $12.0 billion.
As defined in a previous report right here at The Aviationist:
The primary manufacturing AH-64 rolled off McDonnell Douglas meeting traces in 1983 and was delivered to the US Military the following 12 months. Since then, the service operated A, D and E-model Apaches, with the latter two being the variants at present in service. The AH-64E was inducted in service in 2013 and is being fielded among all units because the older AH-64Ds are remanufactured and upgraded to the brand new E-model. Final 12 months, the brand new variant was delivered for the primary time to the Nationwide Guard and to completely deployed items abroad in South Korea.
Boeing delivered the two,five hundredth AH-64 Apache helicopter in 2020 from the corporate’s manufacturing line in Mesa, Arizona. Legacy Apache deliveries, together with new-build and remanufactured helicopters, embrace 937 A-models by way of 1997, greater than 1,000 AH-64Ds between 1997 and 2013, and greater than 500 E-models since 2011. Greater than 1,275 Apaches are at present in service with 17 protection forces world wide and the listing retains rising, with Australia and Poland being the latest countries to order the AH-64E because the 18th and nineteenth operators of the sort.
In line with the DCSA, the proposed sale will help the overseas coverage objectives and nationwide safety aims of the USA by enhancing the safety of a North Atlantic Treaty Group (NATO) Ally that could be a power for political stability and financial progress in Europe.
“The proposed sale will enhance Poland’s functionality to satisfy present and future threats by offering a reputable power that’s able to deterring adversaries and taking part in NATO operations. Poland can have no problem absorbing this tools into its armed forces.” Certainly, following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Poland has continued to put money into new weapon techniques to spice up its navy. For example, the renovation within the rotary wing fleet is already underway, with the primary AW101 destined to the Polish Navy not too long ago touchdown in Poland.
Poland confirmed off a few of its new plane right this moment throughout the #SilnaBiałoCzerwona parade in #Warsaw right this moment together with the primary two #KAI FA-50GFs and what appears to be like like the primary of 32 @LDO_Helicopters #AW149 pic.twitter.com/AU9D8BCHCL
— Tony Osborne (@Rotorfocus) August 15, 2023
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