Editing Boeing AH-64 Apache (section)

===Sea Apache===
[[File:U.S. Army AH-64 prepares to launch from USS Nassau Feb 2005.jpg|thumb|A U.S. Army AH-64A Apache aboard {{USS|Nassau|LHA-4|6}} during Joint Shipboard Weapons and Ordnance training]]

During the 1980s [[Navalised|naval versions]] of the AH-64A for the [[United States Marine Corps]] and [[United States Navy|Navy]] were examined.<ref name="Richardson_Peacock_p60-61">Richardson and Peacock 1992, pp. 60–61.</ref><ref name=Donald_p150>Donald 2004, p. 150.</ref> Multiple concepts were studied with altered landing gear arrangements, improved avionics and weapons.<ref name="Richardson_Peacock_p60-61" /> The USMC conducted a two-week evaluation of the Apache in September 1981, including shipboard operation tests. Funding for a naval version was not provided; the USMC continued to use the [[Bell AH-1 SuperCobra|AH-1]].<ref name=Donald_p170>Donald 2004, p. 170.</ref>

The [[Canadian Forces Maritime Command]] also examined naval Apaches.<ref>{{cite news |title=Local firms hope for spin-offs from big naval aircraft project |work= Montreal Gazette |first= Peggy |last=Curran |date= 6 August 1986}}</ref> In 2004, [[British Army]] AgustaWestland Apaches were deployed upon the [[Royal Navy]]'s {{HMS|Ocean|L12|6}}, a [[Landing Platform Helicopter]], for suitability testing; there was U.S. interest in the trials.<ref name="seatrials1">{{cite web |url= http://www.navynews.co.uk/articles/2004/0405/0004051101.asp |title= Apache Moves Closer To Front Line |website= Navy News |date= 11 May 2004 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110611043406/http://www.navynews.co.uk/articles/2004/0405/0004051101.asp |archive-date= 11 June 2011 |url-status=dead}}</ref> During the [[2011 military intervention in Libya]], the British Army extensively used Apaches from HMS ''Ocean''.<ref name="Apaches fly from HMS Ocean">{{cite web |url=http://www.royalnavy.mod.uk/The-Fleet/Ships/Assault-Ships/HMS-Ocean/ |title=HMS Ocean |publisher=Royal Navy/MOD |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120618015525/http://www.royalnavy.mod.uk/The-Fleet/Ships/Assault-Ships/HMS-Ocean |archive-date=18 June 2012}}</ref> In 2013, US AH-64Ds were tested on several U.S. Navy ships.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.armytimes.com/article/20130905/NEWS/309050004 |title=Army helicopters fly from Navy ships, test joint ops |date= 5 September 2013 |first= Meghann |last=Myers |website=Army Times}}</ref>