{"id":114585,"date":"2024-08-25T21:00:12","date_gmt":"2024-08-25T11:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/explained-the-ah-64-apaches-target-acquisition-and-designation-system-tads\/"},"modified":"2024-08-25T21:00:12","modified_gmt":"2024-08-25T11:00:12","slug":"explained-the-ah-64-apaches-target-acquisition-and-designation-system-tads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=114585","title":{"rendered":"Explained: The AH-64 Apaches Target Acquisition and Designation System (TADS)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                    As I mentioned in a recently published article in Simple Flying, the Boeing AH-64 Apache is arguably the most devastating helicopter gunship ever devised (although, playing devil&#8217;s advocate, one could reasonably also make the case for the American-made <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wearethemighty.com\/mighty-tactical\/usmc-super-cobra-final-flight\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" >Bell AH-1 Super Cobra<\/a> [AKA &#8220;Whiskey Cobra&#8221;] or the Soviet\/Russian-made <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/us-navy-ea-18g-takes-out-houthi-mi-24-hind-helicopter\/\">Mi-24 &#8220;Hind&#8221;<\/a>). A major reason for the Apache&#8217;s battlefield success and reputation is its impressive arsenal, including:    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Apache is a devastating helicopter gunship platform. A major reason is its TADS targeting system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,397,398,3214,474,627,7335,8273],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-analysis","category-boeing","category-guns","category-helicopters","category-lockheed-martin","category-missile","category-rocket"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=114585"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":114586,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114585\/revisions\/114586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=114585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=114585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=114585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}