Boeing AH-64D Longbow Apache Attach Helicopter - 1st Air Cavalry Brigade                         click image for detail view

This limited edition art print represents a Boeing AH-64D Longbow Apache of the 1st Air Cavalry Brigade, 1st Air Cavalry Division; Operation Enduring Freedom, Camp Marmal, Mazar-e Sharif, Afghanistan, December, 2011.

The AH-64 Apache is a four blade main rotor, four blade tail rotor, twin engine Advanced Attach Helicopter, originally designed in 1975 and introduced into service with the United States Army in January 1984.

The formidable Longbow Apache sports a nose mounted sensor suite, and a rotor mounted AN/APG-78 Longbow millimeter-wave Fire Control Radar (FCR), both feeding target acquisition information, day and night, rain or shine, to the copilot/gunner. This information can be used to deliver 30mm fire from the M230 Chain Gun under the aircraft’s belly, or to AGM-114 Hellfire and Hydra rocket pods on stub wing pylons, while the ship hovers or moves forward at 225 mph. Sighting is accomplished by the gunner’s helmet mounted display, the Integrated Helmet and Display Sighting System (IHADSS); which points the weapons where the he is looking.

The AH-64 Longbow Apache is a four blade main rotor, four blade tail rotor, twin engine Advanced Attach Helicopter, originally designed in 1975 and introduced into service with the United States Army in January 1984

This is the 86th in a Series of Historic Aircraft                                       edition size - 500           print size  22" x 10 1/2"           $ 46.00

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