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Boeing AH-64E May Receive Software Fixes to Improve Accuracy of 30mm Gun

Frank Wolfe

Tuesday, February 5th, 2019

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The Boeing [BA] AH-64E may receive software fixes to improve the accuracy of the helicopter's Northrop Grumman [NOC] 30 mm gun. "Operational units have reported that the 30 mm gun is less accurate on the AH-64E than on the legacy AH-64D," according to the FY 2018 annual report by the Pentagon Director of Operational Test and Evaluation. "The Apache program manager performed root cause analysis and identified three issues: early round inaccuracy (early round off target), dispersion (rounds not consistently…

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