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Yes the Apache Can Carry 16 Hellfires in 4 Quad Launchers if i remmeber correctly

Oh no sir. I completely agree with you. But dont discount the fact that Delta and the various other Task Forces were providing realtime targeting intel to the Apaches, Providing overwatch for their approach corridors and Protecting their flanks from OpFor Infantry. ALL CRITICAL Tasks for...

If interested Read a book called Relentless Strike. throws a light on the depth of SOF activity before the Main Force even arrived in theater.

For Reference - The Raid at Karabala The 31 AH-64 Apaches of the 11th Aviation Group took off from Tactical Assembly Area Vicksburg, which was inside Objective Rams. One Apache crashed immediately after takeoff when its pilot became disoriented. When the Apaches turned north toward Karbala...

True - but GWI was the first successful demonstration of Combined Arms warfare. - SOF teams were ahead of the Apaches and A-10s and F-16s overhead with Armoured Cav riding Shotgun. In the India Senario it will be a pretty right sized Force on Force Action with a very high density opfor. For...

Directional Infrared Counter Measures (DIrCM) - Countermeasures to IR MANPADs (heat seeking) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directional_Infrared_Counter_Measures

Well in Iraq Bolt Action rifles brought down Apaches. Like i said the Real World is different shit happens. But again theoretically (and in a perfect world). The LongBow can sit behind a Sand dunes - cue targets from its radar and get other apaches also hidden from line of sight to fire their...

Hellfire in Top Down Attack mode, Quarterbacked by a LongBow providing targeting cues COULD theoretically take out 16 tanks with 16 missiles. Ofcourse the real World works different.

Not withstanding the LOC is a death trap for helos. We are not fighting the Taliban but a very well trained and equiped army. MANPADS liter the LoC. Those valleys are funnel traps with little room for evasive manouvers . Attack helos only work if they are working as an offensive strike package...

ROE do not allow for aviation assets close to the LOC o think there is like a 10km no fly zone or something. And the Apache is not a covert bird. It will be loud and ungaily in high altitude. Such kind of ambushing will be better for the LCH

No I mean 32kms out. That OTH targeting. The Apache survivability lies in it's ability to hide in ground clutter so it's not going to gain altitude to take a 30klick shot to come within SAM range. So the shot has to be cued by other ISR or laser designation by another platform. Will be hard to...

Well firing at tank formations from so far out prevents the helos from coming within mobile SAM radius. I assume that this is aimed more towards fighting the Russians or Chinese not Iraqi armour That being said how you going to achieve OTH targeting ???

. The Tiger failed most QA requirements when trialed with the Indian Army. Infact rumour has it that it withdrew from trials so that its systems could be upgraded. Forget about it being a maintaince hog. Just go by the paper specs. The LCH was designed from the ground up to operate in extreme...

its a LIGHT combat aircraft - slated to operate in the upper reaches of the Himalayas you want to stick a MMW Radar on it?!