Does anyone know what sight the SuperHind uses? I have asked on the Superhind discussion and got no response. I ask cause I want to see if that is the ARGOS 1 sight.
We’re going for Hydra for Apache from now on, according to DE&S.
A guy I know in US Army rotary wing aviation told me CRV-7 is still compatible with AH-64E and can be aimed with the ballistic computer - it came up in his training curriculum. So we could use existing stocks of dumb rockets.
But as you say CRV-7s need a bespoke all-up warhead for laser guidance, that isn’t as flexible as APKWS where it’s a guidance fin section behind normal warheads. APKWS is also becoming relatively inexpensive.
Unfortunately it doesn’t seem APKWS guidance fins can be adapted for CRV-7’s better rocket motors, because it’s not supposed to spin post-launch. Ultimately this is probably why we’re going for Hydras
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