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Particaped in the Advanced Attack Helicopter (AAH) competition. Lost to the YAH-64. 1975 Never 3 Boeing AH-64 Apache: Attack helicopter Boeing: Manufactured by McDonnell-Douglas after buyout of Hughes Helicopters. 1975 1984 1174 MD 500 Defender: Light multi-role helicopter MD Helicopters: Based on the Hughes OH-6 Cayuse light utility helicopter ...
The Boeing–Sikorsky RAH-66 Comanche is an American stealth armed reconnaissance and attack helicopter designed for the United States Army.Following decades of study and development, the RAH-66 program was cancelled in 2004 before mass production began, by which point nearly US$7 billion had been spent on the program.
Family of observation and attack aircraft; composes of the A-3, the main attack version, XA-4, and A-5 and A-6 with more powerful engines. Fokker XA-7: Fokker-America: 1931 1 Curtiss A-8: Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company 1931 1932 13 Lockheed Y1A-9: Detroit Lockheed: A version of the Lockheed YP-24 that specialized in ground attack. 1931 1
A Combat aviation brigade (CAB) is a multi-functional brigade-sized unit in the United States Army that fields military helicopters, offering a combination of attack/reconnaissance helicopters (Boeing AH-64 Apache), medium-lift helicopters (Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk), heavy-lift helicopters (Boeing CH-47 Chinook), and MEDEVAC capability.
Today, the US attack helicopter has been further refined, and the AH-64D Apache Longbow demonstrates many of the advanced technologies being considered for deployment on future gunships. The US Marine Corps also continued to employ attack helicopters in the direct fire support role, in the form of the AH-1 Super Cobra. While helicopters were ...
In 2008, the Indian Air Force (IAF) released a tender for 22 attack helicopters; there were six contending submissions: Sikorsky's UH-60 Black Hawk, the AH-64D, Bell's AH-1 Super Cobra, Eurocopter's Tiger, Mil's Mi-28 and AgustaWestland's A129 Mangusta. [251] In October 2008, Boeing and Bell withdrew. [252] In 2009, the competition was restarted.
Iranian vessels shined a laser at a US attack helicopter in international airspace over the Persian Gulf on Wednesday in what the US Navy is calling an “unsafe and unprofessional manner.”
The helicopter battalions are often grouped into aviation brigades. There are also a few fixed-wing aircraft battalions, consisting of training aircraft, Beechcraft RC-12 Guardrail operational aircraft, and Beechcraft C-12 Huron / Cessna UC-35 transports for VIP personnel.