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Army Monitoring Apaches’ Shipboard Operations to Inform Littoral-Focused Capability Insertion

Thursday, October 23rd, 2014

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The Army and Boeing [BA] are monitoring the AH-64E Apache’s first maritime deployment to collect lessons learned that will be incorporated into the eventual Lot 6 aircraft. Soldiers in the 1st Battalion, 25th Aviation Regiment were the second group to deploy with the new Echo variant and the first to deploy with the attack helicopter for shipboard operations, Apache program manager Col. Jeffrey Hager told reporters at the Association of the United States Army annual conference the week of Oct.…

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