Apache Helicopters
Defence
Tobias Ellwood (Bournemouth East, Conservative)
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what weapons systems are used by the Apache helicopter.
Gerald Howarth (Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (International Security Strategy), Defence; Aldershot, Conservative)
The Apache AH Mk1 weapons systems are 30mm Automatic Cannon, wing mounted 70mm Ariel Rocket and Hellfire Modular Missile Systems. The Apache is capable of carrying any combination of these pylon-mounted rockets and/or missiles.
The Apache AH Mk1 factsheet, is available on the Ministry of Defence website at:
http://www.mod.uk/DefenceInternet/Factsheets/EquipmentFactsheets/ApacheAhMk1.htm