The US Army’s Apache helicopters are crashing at a historically high rate amid a widespread problem with the model’s transmission, according to a CNN analysis of military accident data.

The helicopter type has experienced five major crashes since October, and a deadly mishap earlier this month in Texas killed two soldiers, sparked a wildfire and led the Army to temporarily bar Apache pilots from conducting routine training flights. With that crash, fiscal year 2026 is on pace to be the second worst for Apache flight accidents since a new model of the AH-64 was rolled out in 2011.

The Army announced that the pause in training flights, which exempted units deployed to the Middle East, ended Wednesday.

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[–] 22 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Those helicopters have low testosterone.

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  • [–] 46 points 2 days ago (1 child)

    This is what an un-audited military gets you. Auditing the pentagon’s budget is a matter of serious national security. If they don’t submit to one, they are not defending the nation so should be completely defunded.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 day ago*

    I support this message. Ignore the empty-headed uncritical moralizing from the other comment. These helicopters are weapons of genocide and colonialism, the people flying them understand their function. You shouldn't feel burdened and shunned for writing down what most of us are already feeling, and that feeling is not ultimately in conflict with a universal respect for all life.

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    [–] 121 points 2 days ago (2 children)

    That's what happens when you put some dipshit who thinks militaries should be only "warriors" when all of history tells you successful militaries are logistics engines first and foremost

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  • [–] 13 points 2 days ago

    Good. Maybe they’ll have to take a break from blowing up schoolgirls and hospitals.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 day ago

    They must have bought them from the U.S. and, as we all suspected, someone is playing around with the kill switches. /s

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  • [–] 78 points 2 days ago (22 children)

    Once upon a time I would find this sad because USA was an ally defending democracy and freedom, or at least so I thought.
    But honestly today, I don't give a shit.

    Fuck USA.

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    [–] 12 points 2 days ago

    Sure, we'll stop supporting affirmative action and pretend that firing anyone who wasn't us was a good idea. It's not like being a mechanic requires a certain degree of oddball tendencies, and going out of our way to punish oddballs definitely won't come back to bite us.

    Sabotage? What's that?

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  • [–] 32 points 2 days ago (3 children)

    Did somebody stupid cut servicing checks, along with healthcare, environment and essential checks.

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    [–] 46 points 2 days ago (5 children)

    Genuinely the recent sci-fi trope where the current wave of human civilisation simply sputters to a halt because all the technology is too complicated and unrepairable with built-in obsolescence and all operational knowledge tied up within itself

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    [–] 15 points 2 days ago (1 child)

    I'm picturing the selection process for pilots to be the same as Battlefield games where it's first person to get in the vehicle.

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    [–] 29 points 2 days ago (5 children)

    The reason the Taliban didn't bother trying to use US helicopters and other advanced equipment left in Afghanistan, was that the required maintenance wasn't just expensive, it required a robust supply infrastructure.

    The entire US military has massive supply issues, and the idiots running it will keep destroying very expensive equipment and risking the lives of service members because they're not acknowledging the supply issues.

    No one wants to put ten toes down and say "that can't fly".

    Because all the high up officers who won't just tell trump what he wants, resigned to protect their pensions.

    They're all cowards and this is on their hands as much as the yes men who stayed in.

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    [–] 16 points 2 days ago

    Engineers are woke. We DOGEd em all because we care about your freedom

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  • [–] 1 point 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

    They putting cameras all over my city. So I find this to be good news. Fuck these imperial bastards. 40 trillion dollars in debt. Fuck this shit stain of a country and fuck both of these parties. Fuck the cops and fuck your god. Fuck city council & Fuck all the karens too. Ohh fuck your small business if you support flock... I will not be going there. I gave up drinking but not for health. This society is traps inside of traps with mixed messaging. Fuck cars and fuck your moms. Fuck everything. Fuck the USA. Come on bubble create the crash. Come on nukes and blow up their ass. I don't give a fuck anymore. I hate this place with all my being. LAKE OF FIRE LAKE OF FIRE LAKE OF FIRE LAKE OF FIRE LAKE OF FIRE LAKE OF FIRE LAKE OF FIRE LAKE OF FIRE LAKE OF FIRE LAKE OF FIRE LAKE OF FIRE Burn baby Buuuuurrrrnnnnn. Fuck Genocidal Joe and the fat ass cheeze burger man.

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  • [–] 21 points 2 days ago

    Boeings doing what Boeings always do, nothing different about the Boeing.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 day ago

    This is what happens when they leave the Jesus pin out of helicopter mechanic school

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