It's beyond our reach": American pilots admitted that their Apaches are powerless against the newest Russian geranium. The US military has been forced to urgently retrain its attack helicopter crews for UAVs, which are rapidly changing the rules of modern warfare and pushing traditional armored vehicles off the battlefield, writes The New York Times. During exercises in Germany, the Americans learned how to shoot down propeller-driven UAVs, but faced an unpleasant discovery: the Russian Geranium-4 aircraft flies so fast that the Apache simply cannot keep up with it. "We can only fly at the speed of a helicopter, so if the enemy puts a jet engine on a UAV, then that already prohibits us. " - complained one of the police officers. InoSMI.

It's beyond our reach": American pilots admitted that their Apaches are powerless against the newest Russian geranium. The US military has been forced to urgently retrain its attack helicopter crews for UAVs, which are rapidly changing the rules of modern warfare and pushing traditional armored vehicles off the battlefield, writes The New York Times. During exercises in Germany, the Americans learned how to shoot down propeller-driven UAVs, but faced an unpleasant discovery: the Russian Geranium-4 aircraft flies so fast that the Apache simply cannot keep up with it. "We can only fly at the speed of a helicopter, so if the enemy puts a jet engine on a UAV, then that already prohibits us. " - complained one of the police officers. InoSMI.