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South Korea Becomes 12th International Customer For Modernized Apache Sensor

By Cal Biesecker

Friday, August 16th, 2013

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Lockheed Martin [LMT] Aug. 12 said it received a $223.3 million Foreign Military Sales contract to provide South Korea with Modernized Target Acquisition Designation Sight/Pilot Night Vision Sensor (M-TADS/PNVS) systems for the nation’s AH-64E Apache helicopter. South Korea is the 12th international customer to purchase the M-TADS/PNVS-equipped Apache. The firm-fixed-price contract includes 36 M-TADS/PNVS systems and spares, with production through 2018. Electronics assembly of M-TADS/PNVS is performed at Lockheed Martin’s Ocala, Fla., facility. The final assembly is performed at Lockheed…

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