• Mission

Main description

Attack
Ground fire support
Escort
Armed reconnaissance
Air-to-Air combat

• Typical configurations

  
  Attack

  • 4 Air-to-Air Mistral
    + 8 Hellfire or Spike
    + 30mm turreted gun

  
  
  
  
  Ground

  • 68 rockets 68mm
    

  or

  • 52 rockets 70mm
    + 30mm turreted gun
  
  

  

  Attack

  • 2 Air-to-Air Mistral
    + 4 Hellfire or Spike
    + 34 rockets 68mm
    

  or

  • 26 rockets 70mm
    + 30mm turreted gun  

  
  

  

  Armed Reconnaissance

  • 4 Air-to-Air Mistral
    + 44 rockets 68mm
    

  or

  • 38 rockets 70mm
    + 30mm turreted gun

  
  

  

  Air-to-Air combat

  • 4 Air-to-Air Mistral
    + 30mm turreted gun
    
  
  

• Armament 

  30 mm turret-mounted gun (Nexter 30M781).

  
  • The most accurate and lethal on the market.
  • Combined with the RMS and slaved by two HMSD-P+G Optimized through a performant firing control system (algorithms of target trajectory prediction).
    
  • Reducing collateral damages and fratricide firing risks.
  • Total Ammunition capacity:
    - 450 rounds,
    - Rate of fire: 750 rounds per minute,
    - Bursts: 5 / 10 / 25 bullets,
    - Azimuth: +/- 90°,
    - Elevation: +28° / -25°.
  • Optimized firing domain:
    - ATG: up to 1,500 m,
    - ATA: up to 1,000 m.

  Rockets 

  
  • Versatile 68 mm or 70 mm unguided rocket system (change of rocket type without change of any fixed part on helicopter).
  • 68 mm (up to 68 rockets):
    - 2 inner launchers of 22 rockets,
    - 2 outer launchers of 12 rockets.
  • 70 mm (up to 52 rockets):
    - 2 inner launchers of 19 rockets,
    - 2 outer launchers of 7 rockets.
  • Firing Control for:
    - rocket inner pods elevation,
    - sub-ammunition ejection delays,
    - rocket types.
  • Growth potential for laser guided rockets.

  Missiles

  
  • Air-to-Air Mistral Missile
    - Off boresight capability,
    - Multicell seeker,
    - 2 x 2 missiles (outer launchers),
    - Range = up to 6000 m.
  • Air-to-Ground missiles
    • Hellfire (laser guided):
        - 2 M299 launchers x 4 missiles,
        - Range = 8000 m,
        - Self designation or Collaborative designation,
        - Locked Before Launch (LOBL) or Locked After Launch (LOAL).
    • Spike ER
        - 2 x 4 missiles,
        - Range = 8000 m,
        - (Fire-and-follow) with electro-optical or fiber optics technologies.

• Cockpit & Avionics
  

  • Tandem, pilot in front

  • Air conditioned

  • Redundant MIL 1553 data bus

  • Glass cockpit (4 displays)

  • Map Display with battlefield
    management system

  • Satellite, HF and VHF/FM
    data transfer

  • Radar, laser, missile launch warning
    and chaff/flares dispenser

  
  

• Engines

  

  • 2 MTR 390 step 1.5 1322 shp, SL, ISA

  • Full authority digital engine control

  APU function

  • LH engine declutching

• Main rotor head

  

  • Hingeless flapping
    and lead-lag movements

  • Excellent dynamics
    characteristics

  Airframe

  • Monolitic carbon
    and nomex/carbon composites

• Survivability

  • Low radar signature

  • Low infrared emission

  • Outstanding aircraft agility

  
  
  

  LRU exchange in NBC Conditions
  (ARINC 600)
  

  
  

  
  

• Vibration suppressor

  

  • SARIB type
    (passive system)

  Crashworthiness

  • 90% of MIL-STD-1290