The US Army’s Apache helicopter is once again facing public scrutiny after a crash Monday night at a military base in Washington state.
    • jprice@kbin.run
      4·
      2 months ago

      While this was originally made by Boeing they are NOT the maintainers. Lockheed Martin and Dynacorp maintain certain LRUs on the Apache including power units. The power units in my day were done by Dyncorp which is now defunct.

      The military got rid of my job in favor of privatization. Lockheed and all other defense companies have turned to shit over the last 20 years solely because of profit seeking and this improper maintenance is the result.

  • Infamousblt [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
    81·
    2 months ago

    Those are rookie numbers. Let’s see if we can get an attack helicopter to crash every single day. In fact why not twice a day.

  • SpookyGenderCommunist [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    6·
    2 months ago

    First of all, LOL

    Second of all, LMAO

    Third, It’s super fucked up that the US names its military helicopters after indigenous people’s it genocided, and we don’t talk about that enough.