BOEING IS DEVELOPING AN ELECTRIC GUN TURRET

BOEING IS DEVELOPING AN ELECTRIC GUN TURRET for the U.S. Army's AH-64D Apache Longbow helicopter, to replace the hydraulically driven one now used. The goal is a gun that will correctly point within 0.5 milliradians, compared with the 3-milliradian accuracy of today. The difference will change the...

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