Boeing AH-64D News

Altec Industries Inc. of Birmingham was awarded a $178 million contract to procure commercial trucks and trailers for the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps and federal civilian agencies.

South Korea on Wednesday selected Boeing's AH-64E Apache Guardian for a 1.8 trillion won procurement project amid escalating military threats posed by North Korea, the Defense Acquisition Program Administration said.

Despite talk of the huge impact that sequestration will have on the bottom lines of the U.S. military, the numbers submitted by the Army for fiscal 2014 largely hold the line on the service's long-held top priorities - the network, and new tracked and wheeled combat vehicles - while nibbling around the edges of its rotary-wing fleet.

Army has been eyeing the Apache helicopters, that earlier defeated Russian Mil Moscow Helicopter Plant's Mi-28 Havoc choppers in the field trials conducted by IAF.