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August 7, 2002
   
The AH-64 Apache could not hover while flying at the high altitudes of Afghanistan. Pilots improvised and began to use "gun runs" to support troops instead of hovering over friendly units to pound the enemy, and such running attacks were harder to coordinate. --Stephen V Cole