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it was invented to make a stealthy and fast attacking weapon. also it could be used for scout or recon missions.

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The AH-64 was designed first and foremost as a tank killer. It was designed during the Cold War where it would have been used to destroy massed Soviet tank divisions pouring through the Fulda Gap. Everything else it does was secoondary to that primary purpose

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