{"id":194915,"date":"2008-08-09T06:25:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-09T11:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/08\/09\/boeing-looks-to-apache-upgrade\/"},"modified":"2008-08-09T06:25:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-09T11:25:00","slug":"boeing-looks-to-apache-upgrade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/08\/09\/boeing-looks-to-apache-upgrade\/","title":{"rendered":"Boeing Looks to Apache Upgrade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Basically, the modifications are to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flightglobal.com\/articles\/2008\/08\/02\/226291\/boeing-offers-to-plug-performance-gaps-for-future-ah-64d-apache.html\">the engines, structure, and avionics<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Composite rotor blades.<\/li>\n<li>A composite after body.<\/li>\n<li>Upgraded transmission, capable of handling 3,400shp, up from 2,860shp.<\/li>\n<li>A new 3000 shp engine.<\/li>\n<li>Active defense systems.<\/li>\n<li>Synthetic vision for the crew helmets.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Not clear on the need for the engine upgrade, as the two existing 1,900shp T701D engines already put out more horsepower than the upgraded transmission could handle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Basically, the modifications are to the engines, structure, and avionics: Composite rotor blades. A composite after body. Upgraded transmission, capable of handling 3,400shp, up from 2,860shp. A new 3000 shp engine. Active defense systems. Synthetic vision for the crew helmets. Not clear on the need for the engine upgrade, as the two existing 1,900shp T701D &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1008,1226,1025],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-defense-procurement","category-helicopters","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194915"}],"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=194915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194915\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}