{"id":48402,"date":"2022-08-28T21:27:07","date_gmt":"2022-08-28T19:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=48402"},"modified":"2022-08-29T20:10:52","modified_gmt":"2022-08-29T18:10:52","slug":"the-very-low-passes-and-shots-of-an-ah-64-apache-against-a-leopard-1-tank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/08\/28\/the-very-low-passes-and-shots-of-an-ah-64-apache-against-a-leopard-1-tank\/","title":{"rendered":"The very low passes and shots of an AH-64 Apache against a Leopard 1 tank"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Participating in a military ground exercise alongside Boeing AH-64 Apache attack helicopters can be, without a doubt, an experience that is hard to forget.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/08\/22\/spain-the-f-35-the-ef-18-and-the-harrier-ii-the-problems-that-lie-ahead-and-their-causes\/\">Spain, the F-35, the EF-18 and the Harrier II: the problems that lie ahead and their causes<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/07\/23\/the-amazing-acrobatics-of-the-italian-c-27j-spartan-winner-of-the-riat-2022\/\">The amazing acrobatics of the Italian C-27J Spartan winner of the RIAT 2022<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p>This week, Danish photographer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCS1_So7Q8irn07LOozCCR4Q\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Christian Th\u00f8gersen<\/a> posted a series of videos of a military exercise, supposedly carried out in Denmark (the photographer does not indicate this), with the presence of <strong>an AH-64D Apache helicopter of the Royal Netherlands Air Force<\/strong> (it has its cockade painted on the engines). The exercise has left some spectacular images, such as those<strong>passed at a very low altitud, just a few meters from the ground<\/strong>, as seen in this first video:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"AH-64 Apache fly by\" width=\"665\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9VTNF5ki09U?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Here's a screenshot of the video showing<strong> how low the Dutch AH-64D flew:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52317753270_633235776c_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And if you've ever wondered <strong>what it must feel like to be pointed at by an Apache's 30mm gun<\/strong>, the video has the answer:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52316509872_572eae991f_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In this second video we can see another part of the exercise, in which<strong>the Dutch AH-64D fired its gun at an old Leopard 1 tank<\/strong> already quite deteriorated. Th\u00f8gersen put a camera nearby to show us what the hits from that cannon look like:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Apache 30 mm autocannon vs. Leopard 1 tank - Apache Helicopter - Leopard 1 Tank\" width=\"665\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gVKCk51rO-k?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>inally, <strong>Th\u00f8gersen has published yet another video showing the AH-64D shooting at a car<\/strong> (if you own a Peugeot, be warned that this video may offend your sensibilities):<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Apache Helicopter Target Camera - Rockets and 30 mm autocannon vs. Peugeot\" width=\"665\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Xu-YFwMV7_8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Participating in a military ground exercise alongside Boeing AH-64 Apache attack helicopters can be, without a doubt, an experience that is hard to forget.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[12876,11546],"tags":[1076,15557,7320,17281],"class_list":["post-48402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excluir-de-anotaciones-eng","category-military-aviation","tag-boeing-ah-64-apache","tag-denmark","tag-leopard-1","tag-royal-netherlands-air-force"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-12 01:27:32","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48402\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}