Army Loves AH-64D Block III Enough To Call It Echo; Will Taliban Call It The Echo Monster?

The Army has scheduled a news conference for Wednesday to announce that from that day on, the Block III version of Boeing Co.'s AH-64D Apache Longbow attack helicopter will instead be designated the AH-64E.

Program officials will make the announcement at this year's annual meeting of the Association of the United States Army, the largest yearly meeting of top service and industry officials.

The Army decided to replace "AH-64D Block III" with "AH-64E" after the Defense Acquisition Board, a high-level Pentagon committee, approved full rate production in August.

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