The first AH-64E Apache Guardian for the Netherlands was rolled out at Boeing's Mesa production facility in Arizona, on 25 October. The first of 28 Boeing AH-64D Apache Longbows to be remanufactured to the latest AH-64E v6 Apache Guardian st.
U.S. Agrees to Sell AH-64E Apache Gunships to Kuwait for $4B Our Bureau 2249
AH-64E Apache attack helicopter.
The United States today approved several high-ticket arms sales to the Middle East including one for a bevy of AH-64E Apache attack helicopters to Kuwait for $4 billion.
Kuwait wants to buy 8 new AH-64E Apache Longbow Attack Helicopters and plans to remanufacture the 16 AH-64 Delta-models it purchased in 2005 into the E-model configuration.
The Apaches will come equipped AN/ASQ-170(V) Modernized Target Acquisition and Designation Sights and AN/AAQ-11 Pilot Night Vision Sensor electronic units plus AN/APG Longbow Fire Control Radars. They will be armed with 299 AGM-114 Hellfire Missile Launchers as well as Hydra 70mm rocket launchers and M23El 30mm chain guns.