British Army's fleet of Apache helicopters 'could be scrapped'

Britain’s Apache gunships have been in use since 2001, seeing action in Afghanistan - where current pilots include Prince Harry - and in Libya. Despite the helicopters’ successes on the front line  defence sources suggested that the Army Air Corps fleet of 66 Apaches could eventually be cut to around 50 aircraft fit for operations. Read more HERE

I Hope that at the very least we can keep up to 50 of these fabulous helicopters rather than they all be scrapped, I think scrapped is the wrong word as they would be still worth something at least, Cameron may want to give them away to India or Pakistan for a Christmas present. The fact is we should have a British designed and British built helicopter anyway then this problem would not have occurred.