The Army is giving the AH-64E Apache a new mission, transforming the iconic gunship into a fast-moving drone killer designed to protect troops from the swarm threats shaping modern war. For decades, ...

Live-fire trials of the AH-64 with XM1225 APEX ammunition come as both U.S. and Russian attack helicopters experiment with proximity-fused cannon rounds to defeat small UAVs. The U.S. Army conducted ...

There are no current plans for the Army to replace the Apache. Instead, modernization is the strategy—using periodic upgrades to keep the helicopter flying into the 2040s, and possibly beyond.

The AH-64 Apache and AH-1Z Viper are both advanced American attack helicopters, but they were built for very different ...

Drone swarms are forcing gunships to relearn air-to-air fighting. Developed to assist troops on the ground, the AH-64 Apache has been forced into a different issue space by the proliferation of small ...

How often can you name an American military aircraft program that lasted half a century or more? In the whole of its inventory, maybe only a handful have this distinction. Today, another American ...

Let’s take a closer look at the features of the helicopter that commenced Desert Storm, the forty-three-day war, and has served venerably ever since: the AH-64 Apache Arguably the most distinctive ...