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Boeing has signed the first research, development, testing and evaluation contract with the US Army covering the production and engineering of the Block III Apache Longbow.


Boeing has signed the first research, development, testing and evaluation contract with the US Army covering the production and engineering of the Block III Apache Longbow longbow

Leading missile weapon of the English from the 14th century into the 16th century. Probably of Welsh origin, it was usually 6 ft (2 m) tall and shot arrows more than a yard long.
. The contract, signed in a virtual ceremony between Washington, DC, Huntsville, Alabama Huntsville is the county seat of Madison County, Alabama. Huntsville is the largest city in northern Alabama in a region of a half-million people, with the city proper having 168,132 residents (2006 estimate).  and Mesa, Arizona Mesa is a city in Maricopa County, Arizona and part of the Phoenix-Mesa-Scottsdale Metropolitan Area. It is the third-largest city in Arizona, after Phoenix and Tucson.

Mesa is one of the United States' fastest-growing cities, and currently ranks as the 38th-largest.
, provides $27.2 million of non-recurring engineering costs for Block III enhancements for Apache Longbow helicopters.
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