AAAA 2018: Army could resume accepting AH-64E deliveries in months
Pat Host, Nashville, TN - IHS Jane's Defence Weekly
The US Army is expecting a solution from Boeing no later than August and perhaps sooner that would allow the service to resume accepting deliveries of the company’s AH-64E 'Echo' Apache attack helicopters, according to a key officer.
The service recently halted accepting AH-64Es because of a flaw in a part called a strat pack that goes around the nut that holds rotor blades onto the aircraft. Major General Frank Tate, director of aviation, DCS G-3/5/7, said on 27 April at the Army Aviation Association of America (AAAA) conference that there are four strat packs on each head and if they generated a crack, it could lead to catastrophic failure that would result in rotor blades departing from the aircraft.
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