The US Army’s Apache helicopters are crashing at a historically high rate amid a widespread problem with the model’s transmission, according to a CNN analysis of military accident data.
The helicopter type has experienced five major crashes since October, and a deadly mishap earlier this month in Texas killed two soldiers, sparked a wildfire and led the Army to temporarily bar Apache pilots from conducting routine training flights. With that crash, fiscal year 2026 is on pace to be the second worst for Apache flight accidents since a new model of the AH-64 was rolled out in 2011.
The Army announced that the pause in training flights, which exempted units deployed to the Middle East, ended Wednesday.
Also Eisenhower’s assassination of Patrice Lumumba in the Congo.
It always cracks me up when people quote his warning about the industrial war complex. It’s like a guy who just mugged you then warns you afterwards that the alley you walked down is really dangerous… Thanks I guess?
Wasn’t that speech essentially an expression of regret and admission that he did the wrong thing? That was always the impression I got anyway, and what gives his words even more weight.
Not really, in the same speech he doubled down on the need to rapidly increase the arms industry to combat the Soviets.