Uploaded June 2026 | Updated September 2026, 3 days ago
Off the Carolina coast, an Apache crew picks up a swarm of fourteen fast-moving drones bearing straight for the shoreline — and over twelve minutes, takes down thirteen of them before the last one slips away into the weather. This video drops you inside the cockpit for every shot: the head-aimed M230 chain gun that points wherever the gunner looks, the TADS thermal turret that spots a drone on a black sea, the APKWS laser-guided rockets that turn a cheap Hydra 70 into a precision weapon, the AGM-179 JAGM fired on radar tracks, and the AN/APG-78 Longbow radar that finds and ranks the whole swarm at once.
Then comes the twist. This was never a real engagement — it was the final live-fire certification for a crew about to stand watch over America's coast, flying profiles built to match the real drone incursions that haunted Langley Air Force Base for 17 nights in December 2023, drifted over New Jersey a year later, and account for more than 600 unexplained flights over U.S. military bases since 2022. We break down how an attack helicopter drawn up in the 1970s to fight Soviet tanks became one of America's sharpest tools against the cheap, mysterious drones nobody else can seem to stop.
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Off the Carolina coast, an Apache crew picks up a swarm of fourteen fast-moving drones bearing straight for the shoreline — and over twelve minutes, takes down thirteen of them before the last one slips away into the weather. This video drops you inside the cockpit for every shot: the head-aimed M230 chain gun that points wherever the gunner looks, the TADS thermal turret that spots a drone on a black sea, the APKWS laser-guided rockets that turn a cheap Hydra 70 into a precision weapon, the AGM-179 JAGM fired on radar tracks, and the AN/APG-78 Longbow radar that finds and ranks the whole swarm at once.
Then comes the twist. This was never a real engagement — it was the final live-fire certification for a crew about to stand watch over America's coast, flying profiles built to match the real drone incursions that haunted Langley Air Force Base for 17 nights in December 2023, drifted over New Jersey a year later, and account for more than 600 unexplained flights over U.S. military bases since 2022. We break down how an attack helicopter drawn up in the 1970s to fight Soviet tanks became one of America's sharpest tools against the cheap, mysterious drones nobody else can seem to stop.
Credits:
docs.google.com/document/d/1QCt5Da4eXTEhGmFNghyOpk5TjA3iS4__7pP6dXQLCUk/preview
Join this 'Paper Pilot Club' to get access to perks:
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