For decades, the AH-64 Apache was built to destroy tanks and provide close support to troops on the ground. Now the Army is giving it a mission few expected: hunting drones. The rise of drone swarms ...

The AH-64E Apache has quietly crossed an important threshold: it is no longer just a tank killer, it is now a proven drone hunter that can shoot down small unmanned aircraft with its existing missiles ...

Apache crews from the South Carolina Army National Guard (SCANG) employed all of the helicopter’s four primary weapons against the drones – the AGM-179 JAGM, AGM-114 Hellfire II, the APKWS II and its ...

The Apache AH-64E has been upgraded to coordinate reconnaissance and air strikes with drones that fly ahead of the chopper and send back real-time video data of the environment and any human activity ...