Boeing AH-64

Boeing has selected four Australian suppliers for the AH-64E Apache helicopter and increased the amount of local content on the MQ-28 Ghost Bat UAS.

The Taliban claims to have repaired about half of the U.S.-provided aircraft that were damaged during the final days of the American withdrawal from Kabul.

Australia ditches problematic European choppers for U.S. ones.

With the U.S. Army looking to maintain the capability of its legacy helicopter fleet even as it moves to modernize the force with advanced rotorcraft, continued progress with a new engine program is becoming crucial to its plans.

The Apache will be introduced from 2025, Australian defense minister Linda Reynolds announced Jan. 15, adding that the Boeing helicopter represented the “most lethal, most survivable and lowest-risk” option.

The proposed Foreign Military Sales revealed by the U.S. Defense Security Cooperation Agency reveal two radically different packages for the Bell AH-1Z or Boeing AH-64E Apache.

波音发现，在亚洲地区的新加坡和日本这两个潜在客户市场，当前的AH-64D Longbow Apache直升机运营商对依照AH-64E Guardian标准来改制自己的直升机越来越感兴趣。

ボーイングは、シンガポールと日本をアジアの潜在顧客として、現在のAH-64Dロングボウアパッチオペレーターが同社のヘリコプターをAH-64Eガーディアン規格に再製造する関心が高まっていると考えている。

Boeing is seeing increased interest from current AH-64D Longbow Apache operators to remanufacture their helicopters to the AH-64E Guardian standard.

The company is expecting the Australian Department of Defense to request tenders for the supply of 29 helicopters late this year or early next.

The U.S. Army is seeking $513.5 million in fiscal 2021 for the Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft, up from $398.3 in fiscal 2020, the first year of the program

The biggest change is in procurement of the Sikorsky UH-60M Black Hawk, which is reduced as planned to 36 aircraft from 74 in 2020.