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system (JPATS) programme, the Pentagon believing it provides a cost-effective solu-
tion to its training needs.
AERMACCHI
Italy's Aermacchi has been co-operating with Russia's Yakolev on the AEM-
130 twin-jet engine trainer to meet Russian air force requirements for new trainers.
The AEM-130 is flying in prototype form - no production orders have been received.
It is offered with optional Russian, Slovakian and western engines and avionics. Aer-
macchi continues to market the MB339B jet trainer and is proposing a digital-cockpit
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version for the Italian air force.
SOIM
Romania's Avioane has teamed with Elbit, Israel's avionics specialists, to pro-
duce the IAR-99 SOIM or Hawk that boasts western-style avionics and weapon sys-
tems. A large part of the upgrade involves cockpit improvements, following on
from Elbit's earlier work with Romania's Aerostar on the MiG-21 Lancer upgrade.
The future
The training-aircraft market will provide much work over the next decade.
Many air forces have to replace old models and competition is likely to be fierce
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with the survival of several of the con tending companies at stake.
In Panama, Iraq, Bosnia, Kosovo, Lebanon and most recently in Gaza and the
West Bank, the Boeing AH-64 Apache attack helicopter has proved itself to be a po-
tent war machine. Early in the 1990s the US Army began a programme to modernise
the Apache to ensure its effectiveness well into this century.
Central to the plans to give the Apache sharper claws was the introduction of
the Longbow milli-metric radar that allows the helicopter to see targets at night or
in bad weather at long range, to allow missiles to be directed to their targets with
pin-point
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accuracy. Digital communications allow the data collected by the radar to
be shared with other helicopters or ground-based headquarters. There are two main
variants of the AH-64.
Apache attack helicopters: the AH-64A Apache, and the next-generation ver-
sion, the AH-64D. When equipped with millimetric radar, the aircraft is known as
the AH-64D Apache Longbow. Without radar, it is the AH-64D Apache.
AH-64D Apache Longbow
The AH-64D Apache Longbow is the newest version of the Apache and is
the only version currently in production at the Boeing company's Mesa plant in Ari-
zona.
Production of new-build helicopters is underway for the US Army, the Royal
Netherlands Air Force and the UK's Army
Air Corps at a rate of six plus helicopters a
month. The Mesa facility is designed to accommodate a rate of more than 12
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digital-cockpit – кабина пилота с цифровой электроникой
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fierce – грубый, насильственный, страстный
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pin-point – точное попадание

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