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AUSA 2018: AH-64E shakes off strap pack nut issues (video)

10th October 2018 - 13:09 GMT | by Damian Kemp, Tim Martin in Washington DC

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Boeing expects to have a fix provided for a major structural risk discovered in Apache AH-64E attack helicopters to all platforms by the end of 2020 and to have a temporary safety fix provided to all customers before the end of 2018.

Earlier this year the US Army stopped accepting deliveries of the Apache AH-64E after corrosion was found in the strap pack nut assembly — a large bolt designed to hold the rotor blades onto the helicopter.

After a period of disruption to the AH-64E programme, Boeing is continuing to redistribute a remade strap pack nut to US Army units across

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