The Army's Scout Helicopter Is Cursed
The Army realized it doesn't need pricy new helicopters to do what a drone can do more cheaply
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The Army realized it doesn't need pricy new helicopters to do what a drone can do more cheaply
The AH-64 was first "blooded" in combat during Operation Just Cause in Panama in December 1989. The warbirds provided fire support for an assault on the Comandancia building of Panamanian strongman Manuel Noriega's Panamanian Defense Forces (PDF).
Originally built by Hughes Helicopters (now known as MD Helicopters) and currently manufactured by Boeing, the AH-64 Apache helicopter made her maiden flight in September 1975 but didn’t actually enter into operational status with the U.S. Army until April 1986. She was worth the wait.
Now, let’s see how many arms Kyiv actually gets.
Defense contractor Lockheed Martin and the American military call it the Spike Non-Line-of-Sight (NLOS) Range Precision Munitions Directed Requirement, b...