AH-64 Apache

<p>For more than forty years the AH-64 Apache has dominated the world's most dangerous battlefields as the defining attack helicopter of the modern age. Born from the hard lessons of Vietnam and forged in the Cold War's shadow it went on to shape the outcome of conflicts from the deserts of Iraq to the mountains of Afghanistan and far beyond. Combining unmatched firepower revolutionary night-fighting capability digital networking and extraordinary survivability the Apache permanently altered how wars are fought at low altitude.</p><p></p><p>This authoritative fact-based history traces the complete life of the Apache from concept to combat legend. Drawing on decades of operational service technological evolution and battlefield adaptation it reveals how the aircraft transformed armored warfare urban combat counter-insurgency operations and networked multi-domain conflict. From the dawn of Hellfire missiles and Longbow radar to manned-unmanned teaming and ship-launched strike operations this is the definitive narrative of the helicopter that redefined rotary-wing warfare-and remains at the cutting edge of global military power.</p>