Category: Army

A MH-47 assigned to 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment made a hard landing on the night of Sept. 7 at Fort Campbell, Kentucky.

By Sgt. Eric Rutherford [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
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The Apache helicopter stuck in a muddy field near Huston after an emergency landing has been lifted out with help from a CH-47 Chinook helicopter.

A U.S. National Guard AH-64 had to make an emergency landing on a muddy field east of Baytown in Cove, Texas on Aug. 31 and now the Guardsmen have to figure out how to get it out of the mud.

Here's a better look! You can see the @USNationalGuard #Apache is stuck. No word on when they can get out! #abc13 pic.twitter.com/yySUeJvQu0

— Courtney Fischer (@CourtneyABC13) August 31, 2016

The U.S. Army is making plans to make the Joint Light Tactical Vehicle its new Light Reconnaissance Vehicle platform and arm it with a variant of the M230 chain gun found on the AH-64 attack helicopter.

By Jonathan Mallard (Apache Gun (M230 Chain Gun)) [CC BY 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons