APACHE

Role	Attack helicopter
National origin	United States
Manufacturer	Hughes Helicopters (1975–84) McDonnell Douglas (1984–97) Boeing Defense, Space & Security(1997–present)
Designer	Hughes Helicopters
First flight	30 September 1975[1]
Introduction	April 1986[2]
Status	In service
Primary users	United States Army Israeli Air Force Egyptian Air Force Royal Netherlands Air Force
Produced	1983–present
Number built	2,000 as of March 2013[3]
Unit cost	AH-64A: US$20M (2007) AH-64D: US$65M (2010)[4] AH-64E: US$35.5M (FY2014)[5]
Variants	AgustaWestland Apache

The Boeing AH-64 Apache is an American four-blade, twin-turboshaft attack helicopter with a tailwheel-typelanding gear arrangement, and a tandem cockpit for a two-man crew. It features a nose-mounted sensor suite for target acquisition and night vision systems. It is armed with a 30 mm (1.18 in) M230 chain gun carried between the main landing gear, under the aircraft's forward fuselage. It has four hardpoints mounted on stub-wing pylons, typically carrying a mixture of AGM-114 Hellfire missiles and Hydra 70 rocket pods. The AH-64 has a large amount of systems redundancy to improve combat survivability.