European Gunships Part 4

AFM concludes its review of Europe’s helicopter gunship fleets with a focus on the British Army Air Corps Apache. FLEET SURVEY GUNSHIP HELICOPTERS PART 4 A line-up of AAC Apaches at Royal Naval Air Station Merryfield, Somerset, during a major 16th Air Assault Brigade exercise held between Dartmoor and Salisbury Plain. Rich Pittman United Kingdom THE BRITISH Army first ordered the AH-64D variant of the Apache attack helicopter in 1996 after a fiveyear procurement competition. It then took almost a