Built to absorb some small arms fire, Apache attack helicopters can swoop into enemy fire to provide critical air support to ground infantry caught in lethal combat.
As part of this mission, the Army AH-64 Apache platform draws upon its long-range, high-fidelity sensors to detect new pockets of enemy forces closing in on the area, merges targeting and navigational data with nearby drones and Blackhawks, processes, analyzes and organizes otherwise disparate pools of crucial information and therefore offers ground commanders an integrated picture … in a matter of seconds.
Otherwise disconnected variables such as force location, terrain, navigational detail and