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The Boeing AH-64 Apache (/ ə ˈ p æ tʃ i / ə-PATCH-ee) is an American twin-turboshaft attack helicopter with a tailwheel-type landing gear and a tandem cockpit for a crew of two. Nose-mounted sensors help acquire targets and provide night vision .
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.
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. Originally developed by Hughes Helicopters. Purchased by McDonnell-Douglas, eventually sold to ...
About 20 U.S. Apache military attack helicopters landed at Lielvarde military airfield in Latvia on Thursday, hours after Russian forces invaded Ukraine.
August 13: (2) A US AH-64 Apache helicopter crashed about 20 miles south of Kabul. The crew survived. Another helicopter, a HH-60 was also reported lost the same day. [208] June 12: A MC-130H Combat Talon crashed in eastern Afghanistan, killing three of the ten service members aboard. [209] April 11: An AH-64 Apache crash-landed outside of ...
Three soldiers were killed and a fourth was injured when the Army Apache helicopters they were in collided in midair and crashed in Alaska on Thursday, the military said.
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 ...