{"id":89,"date":"2006-10-03T09:13:24","date_gmt":"2006-10-03T01:13:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/?p=89"},"modified":"2006-10-03T09:13:24","modified_gmt":"2006-10-03T01:13:24","slug":"ah-1w-goes-gps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/?p=89","title":{"rendered":"AH-1W Goes GPS"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"GPS antenna on AH-1W\" alt=\"GPS antenna on AH-1W\" src=\"http:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/10\/ah1w_gps.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<p>At this year&#8217;s openhouse at Kueijen Army Aviation Base, an AH-1W pilot pointed to a green fairing in front of the AH-1W&#8217;s windshield and, without being asked by anybody else, told everybody that it was a GPS antenna just added to the helicopter.\u00a0 Today I found the following FMS contract and I wonder if the antenna was fitted as part of the contract.<\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">\u00a0<\/font><font face=\"Arial\">(Defenselink &#8212; 16 November 2004) Honeywell International Inc., Clearwater, Fla., is being awarded a $5,286,090 firm fixed price contract modification. This action is to exercise options to purchase sixty-nine AH-1W Foreign Military Sales to Taiwan <strong>EGI Production Units<\/strong>, FMS Repayable, Recurring Hardware and EGI Mounts for the Tri-Service Embedded Global Positioning System \/Inertial Navigation System Office.<\/font><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"3\"> <\/font><font face=\"Arial\"><font size=\"2\">This effort supports foreign military sale to Taiwan. Total funds have been obligated. This work will be complete by October 2006. The Headquarters Aeronautical Systems Center, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, is the contracting activity (F33657-99-C-2040, P00220).<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At this year&#8217;s openhouse at Kueijen Army Aviation Base, an AH-1W pilot pointed to a green fairing in front of the AH-1W&#8217;s windshield and, without being asked by anybody else, told everybody&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ah-1w"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}