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Apache exported abroad also saw considerable, high-profile action.

The Apache is the world's premier attack helicopter. 

These shaped charges will be more lethal and accurate than traditional artillery rounds. Javelin anti-tank missiles can destroy armored vehicles from two-to-three miles away, TOW missiles can hit enemy tanks from about two miles and an Apache-fired Hellfire can attack and destroy enemy tanks from roughly four miles away. All of this is impressive, but what about anti-armor artillery able to track and destroy enemy armored vehicles from 30km? How about 70km? This is the intent of the Army’s fast-evolving “hit-to-kill” shaped charge 155mm round engineered to bring new armor-penetrating ex...

How the AH-64 Apache Dominates the Battlefield Below The Apache’s status as the world’s premier attack helicopter remains largely unchallenged. Here's What You Need To Remember: The attack helicopter’s ability to ferret out and battlefield targets and hammer them with precision missiles remains highly valued. Therefore, the Army plans to keep flying Apaches into the 2040s, by which time a new generation of “Future Vertical Lift” choppers may eventually assume their mantle. Early in the morning of January 17, 1991, eight sleek helicopters bristling with missiles swooped low over th...

Why the AH-64 Apache is the World’s Best Attack Helicopter Nearly three decades later, the Apache’s status as the world’s premier attack helicopter remains largely unchallenged. Here's What You Need to Remember: The latest AH-64E Guardian model boasts uprated engines, remote drone-control capabilities, and a sensors designed to highlight muzzle flashes on the battlefield below. The Army has also experimentally deployed Apaches on U.S. Navy ships and had them practice anti-ship missions, and even tested a laser-armed Apache. Early in the morning of January 17, 1991, eight sleek helicopt...