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Longbow radar can be mounted or not on all AH-64D variants, everything depends on situation and mission.

It is probably allmost immposible to tell from the outside.

As far as I know Russians were traying on Mi-28, but it seem they have some problems with their radar. In Europe nobody were even trying, even EC Tiger was designed with outdated ideas in terms of FCS, they just put electrooptical sights over main rotor, not good, because still heli needs to...

There is no need to mount AN/APG-77 on all helicopters, if there are 4 machines flying in formation, one of them can act as commanding unit, this one machine with Longbow radar can actually seek, identify and engage targets using not only missiles that it carry but also missiles from other...

Care to explain how high velocity automatic cannon become low velocity?! Not to mention that actually this weapon have better ballistics and have AP ammunition, something that 30mm M230 don't have, M230 fires only HEDP ammunition.

And here You can be very surprised, a well prepared ambush with use of AA or even HMG's can be very dangerous for attack helicopters, Americans were surprised that way in Baghdad where their AH-64's were badly damaged by HMG's fire and one even needed to land in enemy territory, pilots were...

So they should first look in to technical aspects of weapon system. And still AH-64D is better, not over all superior, but better than Mi-28N, why? I pointed it out, and several conflicts, also where AH-64 was used, says us that attack helicopters are very vurnabale to enemy AA fire, and so...

Because it is not battle tested, this don't mean it is a bad design. Probably 80-90% of modern weapon systems were never battle tested, this don't mean that all of them are bad designs.

Did someone said that Mi-28 is a bad attack helicopter? No, so where is problem? AH-64D have just higher combat capabilities, especially that soon US will start manufacturing laser guided rockets with HE, FAE etc. warhaeads to replace older Hydra rockets types.

I do not belive that they do this in that way, US have completely different way to control how their weapons are used by foreing customers. Besides this, PA AH-1's are really, really old, and di not had any avionics and other electronics upgrades. Besides this, even if You can't use missiles...

Care to explain why Attack Helicopter with superior fire control system than any other attack helicopter is not formidabale? Who needs super fast or super armored helicopter when this heli can just hide behind forest and attack targets from far distance not even seeing these targets. And have...

Depens how we will define this firepower, but indeed, good attack helicopter with high level of firepower. Actually AN/APG-78 is what makes AH-64D most lethal attack helicopter, especially in anti armor role. Who need to see (by himself or by observation helicopter) enemy by using optics when...