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Boeing Wants to Field Upgraded Compound Apache by 2028

Boeing Wants to Field Upgraded Compound Apache by 2028
The production line for the AH-64E Apache attack helicopter may end in 2026. (Photo: U.S. Army)

Boeing [BA] has conducted wind tunnel testing of a 30 percent scale model of an AH-64E Block II compound helicopter, which the company believes it could field by 2028 to serve as a gap filler in a U.S. Army Future Vertical Lift (FVL) program. "Boeing seeks to provide an affordable means to keep the current U.S. Army medium attack helicopter, the AH-64 Apache, capable on the highly complex multi-domain battlefield of the future through 2060," the company said in written…

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