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World Defense & Security News - Pakistan
 
 
Lockheed Martin wins a $14.2 mn contract for Pakistani AH-1Z helicopters Target Sight Systems
 
Lockheed Martin has been awarded a $14.2 million contract for the procurement of non-recurring engineering requirements on the Target Sight System (TSS), including software development and testing, system modification, testing, and installation requirements necessary to configure the TSS to the requirements of the government of Pakistan. Work is expected to be complete by December 2017, the US Department of Defense announced on Jan. 14, 2016.
     
Bell wins 581 mn contract for delivering UH 1Y and AH 1Z helicopters to USMC and Pakistan 640 001A Bell AH-1Z Viper attack helicopter fitted with LM's Targeting Sight System
     
Pakistan requested the purchase of 15 AH-1Z Viper attack helicopters in April 2015, through the US Foreign Military Sale program.

Lockheed Martin's TSS is the multi-sensor electro-optical/infrared (EO/IR) fire control system (AN/AAQ-30) for the AH-1Z Cobra attack helicopter. The TSS provides target identification and tracking, passive targeting for integrated weapons, including Hellfire missiles, and a laser-designation capability supporting friendly laser-guided weapons.It is a large-aperture midwave forward-looking infrared (FLIR) sensor, color TV, laser designator/rangefinder (with eyesafe mode), and on-gimbal inertial measurement unit integrated into a highly stabilized turret. The turret mounts to the nose of the aircraft via the Lockheed Martin-developed aircraft interface structure.

The TSS provides the capability to identify and laser-designate targets at maximum weapon range, significantly enhancing platform survivability and lethality. It features i.a. a 8.55-inch aperture, midwave staring FLIR with four fields-of-view for maximum image resolution and long-range performance, a multi-mode (point and scene), multi-target (3 image, 10 inertial), robust tracker with coast-through-obscuration capability and an advanced image processing for optimum gain and level, sharper imagery, and algorithms for enhanced recognition and identification range performance.