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Have You Ever Wondered Why The AH-64 Is Called “Apache”? The American Indian Tribes Tradition

March 13, 2013 Jacek Siminski

All of the American Army helicopters are named after either Indian Tribe names, or Indian Tribe Chiefs’ names (Apache, Comanche, Chinook etc). This regularity is nowhere near accidental. The most interesting finding I came across trying to […]