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Boeing Offers Two Potential Options For New Army Scout Helicopter

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Thursday, January 8th, 2009

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By Ann Roosevelt Boeing [BA] has responded with information on the AH-6 Phoenix and a Scout-optimized AH-64 Apache helicopters to the Army's sources sought to see if industry had the capability to meet requirements for a new Armed Reconnaissance Helicopter (ARH), according to a company official. "Boeing could provide two candidates for the scout mission with the ability to operate at the temperatures and altitudes in Afghanistan, Iraq and elsewhere in the world, and have the staying power, Mike Burke,…

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