Army aviation reaches new heights

摘要

A LETHAL combination of heavily armed attack helicopters and sophisticated reconnaissance aircraft are set to prove a battlefield game changer, a senior Army Air Corps officer has said. Brig Mike Keating told Soldier the pairing of Wildcat to designate targets with its Apache stablemate to engage them would hit adversaries hard. And now a shift in aviation rules will see the two airframes operate in teams, giving commanders on the ground a huge array of firepower. Brig Keating, who is deputy commander and operations director at the Joint Helicopter Command, was speaking as Wildcat and Apache were paired for manoeuvres over Wales, where they showed impressive potential (page 28).