Meet the AH-64 Apache: K-MAN, by the numbers 6b2429a

The bay’s airspace just got a little more dangerous — and it isn’t even Navy. An AH-64 Apache of the U.S. Army now holds a continuous orbit over the city, callsign K-MAN, olive drab against the dusk. If you see twin stub wings and a chin gun checking you over downtown, that’s him. His card:

1. Crew: two, in tandem — gunner in the front seat, pilot in the raised rear seat. K-MAN’s front seat belongs to CLARRY G — meet him in the next entry. The stepped glass is the Apache’s silhouette.
2. Powerplant: two GE T700 turboshafts, about 1,900 shp each, turning a 48-foot four-blade rotor.
3. Performance: 182 kt flat out, ceiling over 20,000 ft, and it fights — hard — down to nap-of-the-earth.
4. The kit: the 30mm M230 chain gun under the chin (the little turret under our model’s nose), Hellfire missiles on the stub pylons, and rocket pods inboard. Ours carries all three.
5. Dimensions: 58 ft nose to tail, 48-foot rotor — smaller than the Seahawk’s footprint, meaner by the pound.
6. In the bay: K-MAN flies a twelve-point wheel over downtown at a thousand feet and shows up on the tactical map (N) as a green square with his callsign. He’s on gallery page 14/15 — or find him on the showroom floor and click to zoom in. Printable STL on the store, as always.