
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…