AAI's Advanced Boresight Equipment selected by Royal Netherlands Air Force
Jan 21, 2010 (M2 EQUITYBITES via COMTEX) --
Company: Textron, Inc. (TXT)
AAI Corporation, an operating unit of Textron Inc (NYSE: TXT), announced on Wednesday that the Royal Netherlands Air Force has selected its Advanced Boresight Equipment (ABE) for aircraft harmonisation on the AH-64D Apache Longbow and CH-47F Chinook helicopters.
AAI's ABE is a gyro-stabilized, electro-optical angular measurement system designed to align aircraft subsystems.
Under these new awards, valued at over USD1.8m, AAI will deliver an additional ABE AH-64D Apache Depot Boresight System to align various sensor, weapon and sighting systems, as well as an additional ABE AH-64D Apache Maintenance Aircraft Survivability Equipment (AMASE) Boresight Kit for AMASE alignment.
AAI's ABE boresight solution has supported the AH-64D Apache for the Royal Netherlands Air Force since 2004.
In addition, AAI's ABE system has been selected as the harmonisation solution for the Royal Netherlands Air Force's CH-47F Chinook aircraft survivability equipment.
Under the terms of these contract awards, AAI will design, develop and deliver adapters, platform-specific firmware called a Personality Module, training and manuals.
AAI Corporation is a provider of aerospace and defence products and services.
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