{"id":3941,"date":"2021-01-28T15:04:55","date_gmt":"2021-01-28T13:04:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/?p=3941"},"modified":"2021-01-28T15:05:01","modified_gmt":"2021-01-28T13:05:01","slug":"ah-64e-guardian-apache-the-australian-armys-new-offensive-helicopter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/?p=3941","title":{"rendered":"AH-64E Guardian Apache: The Australian Army&#8217;s New Offensive Helicopter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Australian Ministry of Defence announced that it had selected American Boeing and the AH-64E Guardian Apache as the Australian Army&#8217;s new offensive helicopter as part of the Armed Reconnaissance Helicopter (ARH) program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The new helicopters will replace twenty-two (22) in-service EC-6G5 Tiger from 2025 onwards. In total Australia will acquire 29 A-64E Guardian Apache, of which twenty-four (24) will be operational, while the remaining five (5) will be directed to training pilots.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/image-9.jpeg\" alt=\"AH-64E Apache Guardian | Military-Today.com\" class=\"wp-image-3943\"\/><figcaption><strong>AH-64E Guardian Apache<\/strong> <br>Photo by the website www.military-today.com<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the schedule, the first twelve (12) helicopters will have to acquire Initial Operational Capability (10C) in 2026, and full operational capability (FOC) in 2028.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 22EC-6G5 Tiger is being replaced due to high maintenance costs and the long time it takes to repair systems shipped to Europe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Australian Ministry of Defence announced that it had selected American Boeing and the AH-64E Guardian Apache as the Australian Army&#8217;s new offensive helicopter&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1808],"tags":[2342,404,2343],"class_list":["post-3941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-defense-space","tag-ah-64e-apache-guardian","tag-australia","tag-australian-army"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3941"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3944,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3941\/revisions\/3944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}