Hello, I was wondering if anyone had any information on this helicopter, it was a planned further upgrade of the normal PAH-1 model with Infra-red Night Sights, similar to the Swedish’s upgrade to their HKP9A’s. The program was canceled in 1993, but I was wondering if any helicopters were converted for testing of these new systems, if their were, their would be precedent for this to be added to the tech tree.
Those are great thanks, yeah just looking at the optic, it looks completely different from the HKP9A (FC), so it must have been a completely different optics systems. The shape of the optics housing seems to mimic the shape of the Tiger UHT’s rotor mounted optic, so maybe an earlier version of that? it could makes sense given that this upgrade was canceled in favor of moving on with the Eurocopter Tiger project.