Apache digital imaging system gets an upgrade.

• Author: Foster, Sharon
• Position: Tech Talk - Brief Article

The Army will upgrade the combat video-imaging system of the AH-64 Apache attack helicopter.

Pulse Specialty Components, of Bristol, Penn., will participate in the development of a high-speed digital video transmission system, using the Fibre Channel standard, said Estro Vitantonio, a company spokesman. This technology is part of the modernized Apache Target Acquisition Designation Sight/Pilot Night Vision Sensor, which is called Arrowhead.

Arrowhead's modernized targeting and navigation systems allow Apache pilots to fly during the day or night in adverse weather with greater safety and reliability, he said.

Arrowhead uses a digital video to enhance recording capability and facilitate still-frame video imagery transmission to the ground commander or another...