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Boeing Flies AH-64E Version 6.5 For First Time, Says FARA Informing Future Modernized Apache

By Matthew Beinart

Wednesday, October 11th, 2023

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Boeing Flies AH-64E Version 6.5 For First Time, Says FARA Informing Future Modernized Apache

AH-64E Apache Version 6.5. Photo: Boeing

Boeing [BA] has completed the first flight of the newest version of its Apache attack helicopter, the AH-64E Version 6.5, while the company is also looking to the Army’s Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft (FARA) to inform development of the next Modernized Apache. Christina Upah, Boeing’s vice president of attack helicopter programs, told Defense Daily on Wednesday the next step for AH-64E Version 6.5 will be moving into software baseline verification testing early next year. “The Version 6.5 is really building…

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