Korea's US arms buys

Sale of AH-64E Apache Helicopters notified

Announced 24/08/19

Notification

Announced
24/08/19
Purchaser
Republic of Korea
Transmittal
24-36
Estimated value
$3,500,000,000
Major defense equipment
$2.5B
Military department
Army
Principal contractors
  • Boeing BA
  • Lockheed Martin LMT

The request as notified

The Republic of Korea (ROK) has requested to buy thirty-six (36) AH-64E Apache Attack Helicopters; seventy-six (76) T700-GE-701D Engines (72 installed, 4 spares); thirty-six (36) AN/ASQ-170 Modernized Target Acquisition and Designation Sight/AN/AAR-11 Modernized Pilot Night Vision Sensors (M-TADS/PNVS); fourteen (14) AN/APG-78 Fire Control Radars (FCR) with Mast Mounted Assembly (MMA); fourteen (14) AN/APG-78 Fire Control Radars (FCR) with Radar Electronic Units (REU); fourteen (14) AN/APR-48B Modernized-Radar Frequency Interferometers (MRFI); four hundred fifty-six (456) AGM-114R2 (N) Hellfire Missiles; six (6) M36E8 Captive Air Training Missiles (CATM); one hundred fifty-two (152) AGM- 179A Joint Air-to-Ground Missiles (JAGM); forty (40) AAR-57 Common Missile Warning Systems (CMWS) (36 installed, 4 spares). The following non-MDE items will also be included: AN/AVR-2B laser detecting sets; AN/APX-123A Identification Friend or Foe (IFF) transponders; IDM-401 improved data modems; Enhanced Image Intensifier (EI2) cameras; AN/ARN- 149 (V)3 automatic direction finders; ASN-157 Doppler Radar Velocity Sensors; AN/APN-209 radar altimeters; AN/PYQ-10(C) Simple Key Loader; Airborne Global Positioning System (GPS)/Embedded Global Positioning System/Inertial Navigation System (EGI); AN/APR-39C(V)1+ Radar Signal Detecting sets; ARC-220 High Frequency Communication Systems; KIV-77 Mark XIIA IFF Crypto Applique; Common Missile Warning System (CMWS) software update; M230E-1 30mm automatic gun; M139 AWS 20mm automatic gun; M261 rocket launchers; M299 missile launchers; 2.75-inch rockets; 30mm rounds; MG62 Cartridge Impulse BBU-35/N; A965 cartridges, 25.4mm rounds; M839 decoys; L410 flares; M206 aircraft countermeasures decoy flares; Cartridge Actuated Devices/Propellant Actuated Devices (CAD/ PADs); U.S. Government engineering, technical, and logistics support services; and other related elements of program and logistics support. The estimated total cost is $3.5 billion.

The contractor sentence as notified

Boeing, located in Mesa, AZ; and Lockheed Martin, located in Orlando, FL

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