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AH-64D Apache vs AH-64E Apache: how to tell them apart

Two versions of the same family. Name the wrong one in Spotrep and you still get family points, but the exact model scores most.

AH-64D Apache, military helicopter from USA

AH-64D Apache

Military helicopter, USA. In service since 1997

What gives it away

Tandem stepped cockpit, chin gun, stub wings; many carry a round Longbow radar dome above the rotor.

Used by

USA, Israel, Greece, Japan, Singapore, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia; UK and Netherlands moved to the AH-64E

Photo: IDF Spokesperson's Unit photographer, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0
AH-64E Apache, military helicopter from USA

AH-64E Apache

Military helicopter, USA. In service since 2013

What gives it away

Tandem stepped cockpit, chin gun, stub wings, four-blade rotor with tail rotor.

Used by

USA, UK, Netherlands, Japan and others

Photo: Shanze1, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
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