Regardless of the merits of the Apache and the pricing, I think this news should be a lesson to us all.
Those of us old enough to remember the 1950s & 1960s, remember vibrant British automobile and motorcycle industries. Now they are distant memories. The vast majority of their most revered automobile marques are owned by companies with names like Volkswagon, BMW, Tata and others. Their motorcycle industry is nonexistent, save one. And their aircraft industry. Pfft.
Now in 2016, they must rely on foreign manufactures to build the weapons, they WILL need to defend themselves someday.
what are the conformal pods along the nose???