John Cook wrote in message . ..
What will the US use?

There is obviously a operational need for an attack helicopter.

How about licensed production of the Tigre!!

I can't imaging the Apache being current in a very few years, not
without major upgrades...

Cheers

The days of the attack helo are numbered. The US Army is going with
the Hunter and Raven UAVs plus future UCAVs.

Photo of Raven:
http://147.71.210.21/fm4480/chpt12/raven/uravn_p1.gif

Not surprising since UCAVs can do a better job, are cheaper, unmanned,
and can (in the future) carry " Swarmers"- KKVs (Kinetic Kill
Vehicles) that attack everything like exploding locusts.

BTW, Germany is going the Swarmer route in the future

Rob