{"id":99332,"date":"2024-08-02T11:00:12","date_gmt":"2024-08-02T01:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/how-ah-64-apache-deployed-us-military-operations\/"},"modified":"2024-08-02T11:00:12","modified_gmt":"2024-08-02T01:00:12","slug":"how-was-the-ah-64-apache-deployed-in-us-military-operations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=99332","title":{"rendered":"How Was The AH-64 Apache Deployed In US Military Operations?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                    The US Army&#8217;s AH-64 Apache attack helicopter (originally built by <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/hughes-xh-17-helicopter-story\/\">Hughes Helicopters<\/a> from 1975 to 1984, followed by <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/mcdonnell-douglas-rise-and-fall\/\">McDonnell Douglas <\/a>from 1984 to 1987, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.boeing.com\/features\/2024\/04\/modernized-ah-64-apache\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" >Boeing<\/a> ever since), is arguably the most effective and battle-proven helicopter gunship of all-time. Playing devil&#8217;s advocate, one could also reasonably make a case for either the Soviet\/Russian-made <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/us-navy-ea-18g-takes-out-houthi-mi-24-hind-helicopter\/\">Mi-24 &#8220;Hind&#8221;<\/a> or the American-made AH-1 Cobra, but that&#8217;s a debate for a future Simple Flying article.    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Apache is arguably the world&#8217;s most effective attack helicopter. We now examine how this chopper was utilized in US military deployments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,398,474,408,412,8513],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-boeing","category-helicopters","category-history","category-military","category-us-army"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=99332"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99333,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99332\/revisions\/99333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=99332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=99332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=99332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}