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The Boeing AH-64 Apache (ICAO: H64 / WAKE: MEDIUM) is a four-blade, twin-engine attack helicopter with a tailwheel-type landing gear arrangement, and a tandem cockpit for a two-man crew. Created in Second Life by Amok Dynamics, the aircraft was based on the real-life Boeing AH-64 Apache.

Background

The real-life Boeing AH-64 Apache features a nose-mounted sensor suite for target acquisition and night vision systems. It is armed with a 30 mm (1.18 in) M230 Chain Gun carried between the main landing gear, under the aircraft's forward fuselage. It has four hardpoints mounted on stub-wing pylons, typically carrying a mixture of AGM-114 Hellfire missiles and Hydra 70 rocket pods. The AH-64 has a large amount of systems redundancy to improve combat survivability.[1]

Features

  • Pilot's heads-up display (HUD) attachment.
  • Animated components (main rotor, tail rotor, M230 Chain Gun).
  • VICE & MCE combat system variants available with:
    • Cannon (chin mounted).
    • Unguided rockets.
    • Anti-tank missiles with 3 homing modes/3 aproach pattern.
    • Air-to-air missiles.
  • x12 preloaded liveries.

Images

See also

References

  1. Boeing AH-64 Apache (English). Wikipedia. Retrieved on 2015-03-15.
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