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Army

Army Monitoring Apaches’ Shipboard Operations to Inform Littoral-Focused Capability Insertion

Defense Daily Staff

Thursday, October 16th, 2014

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Army Monitoring Apaches’ Shipboard Operations to Inform Littoral-Focused Capability Insertion

Col. Jeffrey Hager, Army program manager for Apache helicopters

The Army and Boeing [BA] are monitoring the AH-64E Apache’s first maritime deployment to collect lessons learned that will be incorporated into the eventual Lot 6 aircraft. Soldiers in the 1st Battalion, 25th Aviation Regiment were the second group to deploy with the new Echo variant and the first to deploy with the attack helicopter for shipboard operations, Apache program manager Col. Jeffrey Hager told reporters at the Association of the United States Army annual conference this week. Hager said…

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