US STATE DEPARTMENT AGREES AUSTRALIAN AH-64E PURCHASE

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APPROVAL HAS been given for the proposed Foreign Military Sale of 29 Boeing AH-64E Apaches to the Government of Australia at an estimated cost of $3.5bn. The US Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) announced the approval by the US State Department on June 3, saying it had notified Congress the same day. In addition to the helicopters, the DSCA says Australia has requested 64 T700-GE 701D engines (58 installed, six spares); 29 AN/ASQ-170 Modernized Target Acquisition and Designation Sight/AN/AAR-11 Modernized Pilot Night Vision Sensors (M-TADS/PNVS); 16 AN/APG-78 Fire Control Radars (FCR) with Radar Electronic Units; 29 AN/APR-48B Modernized Radar Frequency Interferometers (MRFI); 70 Embedded Global Positioning Systems with Inertial Navigation Systems plus Multi-Mode Receiver (EGI+MMR) (58 installed, 12 spares); 35 AAR-57 Common Missile Warning Systems (CMWS) (29 installed, six spares); and 70 AN/ARC-231A Very High Frequency/Ultra High Frequency (VHF/UHF) radios (58 installed, 12 spares).