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Speaking of obsolete
Remember the TOW missiles? Wire guided from chopper to tank. So old school. It meant the Apache had to be up high enough and linger long enough to give away their position.
But then we got the Hellfire which required no wire. It just needed a laser target supplied by the helicopter or a ground system. But even then, if the laser was in the Longbow then the Longbow had to remain high until impact and still give away its position.
Now we have the Hellfire II which is an anti tank missile with its own computer and radar. The Apache pops up, defines the radar signature of the thank, fires, and then drops behind the trees or the hill, kills the tank, and moves off in some other direction to pop up again 90 degrees afar and kills again.
All of this from two miles away where the four blades and turbines cannot be heard.
Pay your taxes
Support military research
Stop bitching.
No I think I'll keep bitching about a trillion dollar aircraft that barely functions.