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<p>Some Marine Corps aviators are saying the best performing choppers in Operation Anaconda were Marine Cobras, not the Army's front-line AH-64 Apaches.</p> <p>"I know they got a lot of press, but two days after we arrived, an AH-64 did not fly in that objective area again, and it became our show," said one Marine aviator. "We got credit for a lot of targets found and destroyed. We were able to find something new to shoot at every single time we went there and could still be killing targets if we had not come back to the boat."</p>

US doubles Apache force as marines prepare for battle By Kim Sengupta in Bagram, Afghanistan 23 April 2002 The United States is doubling the size of its Apache helicopter force at Bagram air base, to provide support for Royal Marines against Taliban and al-Qa'ida fighters in the Afghan mountains. Four additional aircraft will arrive from Kandahar in the next 24 hours to join the build-up of forces at the former Soviet base, in preparation for a series of assaults in northern and eastern Afghanistan. The Apaches, widely used in the American offensives at Tora Bora and Gardez, will provide aerial...

<p>Enterprises last week had 11 more reasons to rethink using IIS: 10 new security holes in the Microsoft Web server and the arrival of Apache 2.0. After three years of development, Apache 2.0 (or, more accurately, Version 2.035) has finally been released. Unix users will find plenty to like in Version 2.0, but the biggest impact will be on Windows servers, where Apache can now perform as a production-level Web server.</p>

(Filed: 25/03/2002) THE Army's new Apache attack helicopter cannot fire its Hellfire anti-tank missiles for fear that debris ejected on launching could cause catastrophic damage. The problem is confirmed by a Ministry of Defence document leaked to The Telegraph. The MoD was unable to say how much damage could be caused. It was working with the makers to solve the problem, officials said.But defence sources said there were serious concerns that the debris could damage the main or tail rotors, causing the helicopter to crash.The Army is buying 67 Apache helicopters. They are being built in Britain by Westland under...

Silicon Graphics (SGI) machines running the Apache Web server on SGI's IRIX operating system are vulnerable to attack by hackers, who may be able to gain administrator-level access, the company has warned. The company makes machines used for everything from scientific research to movie special effects, and many are used by government and defense organizations. The two new flaws, originally announced on Friday, affect IRIX versions 6.5.12, 6.5.13 and 6.5.14 running Apache versions prior to 1.3.22. IRIX is SGI's proprietary version of the Unix operating system, while Apache is a widely used open-source Web server, which is installed and enabled...