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USA |
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Type: Attack helicopter |
| Manufacturer:
Hughes |
| Service:
1983 - 2008 |
| First
Flight: 30 September 1975 |
| Production:
1048 |
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The AH-64 Apache is an all-weather day-night military attack helicopter with a four-bladed main and tail rotor and a crew of two pilots who sit in tandem. The main fixed armament is a 30 mm M230 Chain Gun under the aircraft's nose. It can also carry a mixture of AGM-114 Hellfire and Hydra 70 rocket pods on four hard points mounted on its stub-wing pylons. The AH-64 is the principal attack helicopter of the United States Army, and a successor to the AH-1 Cobra.
The Apache was designed by Hughes Helicopters in response to the Army Advanced Attack Helicopter program. McDonnell Douglas purchased Hughes Helicopters and continued the development of the AH-64 resulting in the AH-64D Apache Longbow which is currently produced by Boeing Integrated Defense Systems. United States Army AH-64s have been in action in Panama, Gulf War, Afghanistan, and Iraq.
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| TECHNICAL
SPECIFICATIONS ( AH-64A) |
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General characteristics
- Crew: 2: pilot, CPG (co-pilot/gunner)
- Length: 58.17 ft (17.73 m) (with both rotors turning)
- Rotor diameter: 48 ft 0 in (14.63 m)
- Height: 12.7 ft (3.87 m)
- Disc area: 1,809.5 ft (168.11 m)
- Empty weight: 11,387 lb (5,165 kg)
- Loaded weight: 18,000 lb (8,000 kg)
- Max takeoff weight: 21,000 lb (9,500 kg)
- Powerplant: 2 x General Electric T700-GE-701 and later upgraded to T700-GE-701C & T700-GE-701D (1990-today) turboshafts, -701: 1,690 shp, -701C: 1,890 shp -701D 2,000 shp (-701: 1,260 kW, -701C: 1,490 kW) each
- Fuselage length: 49 ft 5 in (15.06 m)
- Rotor systems: 4 blade main rotor, 4 blade tail rotor in non-orthogonal alignment
Performance
- Never exceed speed: 197 knots (227 mph, 365 km/h)
- Maximum speed: 158 knots (182 mph, 293 km/h)
- Cruise speed: 143 knots (165 mph, 265 km/h)
- Combat radius: 260 nm (300 mi, 480 km)
- Ferry range: 1,024 nm (1,180 mi, 1,900 km)
- Service ceiling 21,000 ft (6,400 m)
- Rate of climb: 2,500 ft/min (12.7 m/s)
- Disc loading: 9.80 lb/ft (47.90 kg/m)
- Power/mass: 0.18 hp/lb (310 W/kg)
Armament
- Guns: 1 x M230 30 mm (1.18 in), 1,200 rounds
- Rockets: FFAR rockets
- Missiles: combination of AGM-114 Hellfire, AIM-92 Stinger
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