A US Army official said the Apache helicopter faces threats that may reduce its battlefield prowess. Lt. Gen. Joseph Ryan said the older Apache AH-64D is no longer a "war-winning capability." Efforts are focused on upgrading the latest Echo model to ...

Helicopter pilots face a wide range of dangers that regular pilots do not—from hostile ground forces, environmental hazards, and the general dangers that come with an inherently un-airworthy platform.

It was one of the most audacious missions of the war in Afghanistan: a group of Royal Marines strapping themselves to the sides of two Apache gunships to recover the body of one of their own, L/Cpl Mathew Ford.

Calm and steady, that is how Captain Javier Tan feels in the cockpit, even when cloud cover completely blocks his fighter jet’s sensors more than 15,000 feet (4,500m) in the air.

The US military configured the AGR-20F APKWS rocket to shoot down unmanned aerial systems as a cost-saving measure.