{"id":193200,"date":"2009-01-10T07:26:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-10T12:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/01\/10\/boeings-arh-proposals\/"},"modified":"2009-01-10T07:26:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-10T12:26:00","slug":"boeings-arh-proposals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/01\/10\/boeings-arh-proposals\/","title":{"rendered":"Boeing&#8217;s ARH Proposals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like Boeing is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flightglobal.com\/articles\/2009\/01\/07\/320768\/boeings-new-phoenix-rises-from-arh-ashes.html\">leveraging its experience with the AH-64 Apache for its proposals<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The first proposal is a modification of it&#8217;s AH-6 &#8220;Little Bird&#8221; helo, with a 15 inch fuselage plug to allow space for extraction of downed airman, and a reprofiled nose to accommodate more avionics.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly enough, it eschews the common avionics architecture system (CAAS) for cockpit instrumentation that was used on the now canceled ARH-70, instead using a derivative of the suite on Boeing&#8217;s own AH-64 helicopter, along with rotor blades also derived from the Apache.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, this is still a single engined helo, and Boeing is proposing a cut down version of the AH-64 &#8220;Apache Lite&#8221; if the army insists on two engines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like Boeing is leveraging its experience with the AH-64 Apache for its proposals. The first proposal is a modification of it&#8217;s AH-6 &#8220;Little Bird&#8221; helo, with a 15 inch fuselage plug to allow space for extraction of downed airman, and a reprofiled nose to accommodate more avionics. Interestingly enough, it eschews the common &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1008,1226],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-defense-procurement","category-helicopters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193200"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193200\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}