South Korea Completes Deployment Of 36 AH-64E Apache Helos

IHS Jane
Yonhap News Agency
27 Jan. 2017

The Republic of Korea Army (RoKA) has put into service all of the 36 AH-64E Apache Guardian attack helicopters ordered from Boeing in 2013 as part of a USD 1.6 billion contract under the US Foreign Military Sales program, a South Korean military official was quoted by Yonhap news agency as saying on 27 January.

The AH-64E has a sophisticated Longbow fire control radar that can track up to 256 targets simultaneously within a 55 km2 area.

It can be armed with up to 16 Hell fire missiles and also has a 30 mm gun, according to IHS Jane’s World Armies.

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