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.

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    South Korean parliamentary elections in 1950 results in 60% of seats for party wanting unification, and 12% for US puppet president’s party. President blocked all mandates. Whether North proposals for nationwide elections or unification of parliaments with arrest of Rhee (puppet) were sincere, is deniable. North’s attempt to liberate South eventually failed. North/Sung would eventually replace democracy with a Monarchy (Sung’s decendants), and questioning his willingness to have taken a pragmatic distribution of power for unification goals is a reasonable western narrative.