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An early Hughes YAH-64 prototype with T-tail. After the AH-56 Cheyenne was cancelled in 1972 in favor of projects like the U.S. Air Force A-10 Thunderbolt II and the Marine Corps AV-8A Harrier, the United States Army sought an aircraft to fill an anti-armor attack role that would still be under Army command.
7 May 2015 – Damaged or Destroyed – A Saudi Arabian Army Aviation Boeing AH-64 Apache helicopter made an emergency landing just inside the Yemeni territory in Najran, because of a technical failure. [12] The Houthis claimed they forced the helicopter down. The helicopter suffered minor damage according to Saudi officials. [13]
In the video on the morning of July 12, 2007, the crews of two United States Army AH-64 Apache helicopters observe a gathering of men near a section of Baghdad in the path of advancing U.S. ground troops. [18] [23] The crew estimates the group is twenty men. [24] Among the group are two journalists working for Reuters, Namir Noor-Eldeen and ...
The AH-64 Apache helicopters of the U.S. Army's 11th Attack Helicopter Regiment, faced several problems before the operation. The terrain around Baghdad was not desert, but urban sprawl. Experience from the Battle of Mogadishu of 1993 showed that helicopters are vulnerable over urban areas. Intelligence was inadequate. The information on the ...
On Thursday, the U.S. Department of Defense announced a series of three contract awards to Boeing , worth a combined $129 million, all relating to the sale of Apache AH-64D attack helicopters to ...
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.
Army Chief Warrant Officer 4 Steve Gorski, stationed in Fort Drum in New York, talked to visitors in front of the AH-64 Apache, the Army’s only attack helicopter currently in service.
20 January – An U.S. Army AH-64 Apache helicopter crashes near Najaf. One soldier is killed. [82] 20 January – An UH-60 Black Hawk from C Company, 1–131 Aviation Regiment [83] is shot down by a combination of several heavy machine guns and a shoulder-fired missile north-east of Baghdad. All 12 crew and passengers on board are killed in ...