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AH-64D Longbow

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IGN said,
One look at this detailed helicopter simulation, and you'll know it's from Jane's. Who else could bring you level after level of varied terrain, historical battles, and high-tech weaponry?

As a pilot of the AH-64D Longbow, you join UN forces sent to the Polish/Ukraine border to defend against threatening CIS (Confederation of Independent States) forces. From the initial recon and surveillance to the final shots, you get to fly missions throughout the course of an entire war. Mission scenarios involve everything from escort duty to surgical strikes, POW rescue missions and much more.

Take the world's most advanced attack helicopter: the AH-64D Longbow, and annihilate your enemies! With the most authentic helicopter flight model up to date, detailed simulation of the milimeter wave radar on the Longbow, along with plenty of other weapon systems including your chain gun, FFAR rocket pods, Stinger missiles, anti-radar missiles, and more. Excellent terrain graphics. Command a wingman to assist you, and take on the Soviet-block equipment in multiple campaigns and historical missions including Panama and Desert Storm! If you're nostalgic, you can also fly the AH-64A version without the radar...

Also known as "Jane's AH-64D Longbow", this version is for DOS on 2 floppies, yet a DOS only tag is not currently viable.

Publisher Electronic Arts released some twenty flight simulation games between 1995 and 2000 under the brand "Jane's Combat Simulations". They obtained license from Jane's Information Group (aka "Jane's"), a private corporation founded in 1898 by John Fredrick Thomas Jane. Jane's is widely considered the definitive reference group for military hardware, technologies development and strategic analysis, and their association with EA during this period created many of the greatest flight sims yet produced.

Yahoo games UK said,
Longbow pushes the limits, demanding beyond-state-of-the-art machinery to work well...a P-133 with 90 megs free on the hard drive..

Developer: Origin Systems for Jane's Combat Simulations
Publisher: Electronic Arts
Released: May 31, 1996

Minimum System Requirements
486 IBM compatible at 66Mhz, later reported as P75, 16MB RAM, 1MB Video Card, 40MB HD, though users reported steeper requirements as a more realistic minimum.
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Publisher: Electronic Arts

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Jane's AH-64D Longbow Game Features

Game Features:
  • Experience the sensation of flight like never before on the PC on this authentic PC simulation of the US Army's AH-64D Longbow Apache helicopter. This simulation was developed under an exclusive alliance with Jane's Information Group, the world's leading authority on military and global intelligence information.
  • Jane's AH-64D Longbow has over 250 missions in all!
  • Created by Origin's SkunkWorks development team, lead by veteran simulation producer Andy Hollis (GUNSHIP, F-19 Stealth Fighter, F-15 Strike Eagle III). Andy and his team used the actual AH-64D design manuals from McDonnell Douglas in their development process. AH-64D LONGBOW has been fully-tested by US ARMY Apache pilots and other experts who must remain nameless.
  • AH-64D Longbow has over 20,000 square Km of fully-textured, rolling terrain. All of the terrain is based of real US Geological Survey digital elevation map data. There are no "tiles" used or repeating terrain art, it's all 100% unique. You can easily use terrain features as reference points during missions. In other words, it's real terrain. For the first time ever in a PC simulation, players can use realistic pop-up attacks and terrain masking techniques, just like real Longbow and Apache pilots do. There are several different geographic terrain types to encounter as well. You'll see the snow-capped mountains and scattered farmlands of the Baltic region, steep tropical mountains, coastlines, even the Panama Canal and Panama City in (you guessed it) Panama, the rolling sand dunes of Iraq, and the blistering hot desert of Mesa, AZ (where you get to experience training over the same terrain as real Longbow pilots do).
  • The flight model in Jane's AH-64D Longbow was developed in-house by Origin's aerospace engineering experts along with plenty of input from real US Army Apache pilots. Toward the end of the project, a team of special pilots were also involved in testing this simulation. We can't reveal who they are, but we can give you a hint: they fly real AH-64D Longbow Apaches. The result is an incredibly realistic flight model with options that include settings for Collective, Dynamics, Aerobatics, Ground Effect, Transitional (Translational) Lift, Altitude effects, Weight, Wind and Turbulence.
  • Tailor the gameplay to your style, but with the combined resources from Jane's, McDonnell Douglas, US Army pilots, and former military intelligence officers, you can be sure that at full realism, Jane's AH-64D Longbow is as realistic as any non-classified simulation can get. Producer Andy Hollis has a reputation for delivering precision avionics. His last sim, F15 SEIII, received accolades for the avionics modeling and was a classic example of how to do it right. Jane's AH-64D Longbow takes it one step further. In AH-64D Longbow, realism options include Damage, RWR, Targeting, Missile Ranges, Weapons Damage, Audio Warnings and map icons.
  • AH-64D Longbow includes an interactive Jane's Combat Reference guide packed with photos, diagrams, stats and 3D models of all the aircraft, vehicles, amour and air defense systems in the sim. There are several hundred pages of Jane's information in all. Players can also view photos and technical drawing at full-screen. You can look at your mission map, read your briefing and identify key threats, then pull up the interactive Jane's guide and learn more about their strengths, weaknesses and how to identify them on the battlefield.
  • AH-64D Longbow features a fully interactive combat training system with tutorial missions designed by the former head of Apache training at Ft. Hood. Everything is covered, from a thorough walk-around to basic flight, instrumentation, Weapons & Sensors and much more. If you want to bypass the 256-page spiral-bound manual, just complete the training program and you should ready to take on just about anything in the sim.
  • There are both friendly and enemy infantry soldiers in Jane's AH-64D Longbow. Even with all the high-tech air defense systems in place, a shoulder-launched SAM can still be your worst enemy.
  • Fly real historical missions from 'Desert Storm' (Gulf War) and 'Just Cause' (Panama). All are precisely recreated using the most accurate, up-to-date intelligence information available. Fly them as they were really flown in the A-model (Apache) or twist the history books by taking on Sadam Hussein and Gen. Noriega in a Longbow!
  • AH-64D Longbow has a single mission clipboard that generates missions based on your input on variables such as the terrain type, time of day, mission objectives and weather. The mission briefing interface lets you customize your waypoint paths, too.
  • AH-64D Longbow has an instant action mode geared for pilots looking for fast action and a lot of carnage. Instant action mode will start up a target-rich mission on the currently decompressed terrain map. So, if you've been flying historical missions in Panama and start up instant action, your instant action mission will take place in Panama. By default, instant action mode gives you unlimited ammo and invulnerability, but you can change the realism options to something more challenging if you like. Instant action missions are less realistic than the other missions, but are much more action-packed.
  • With the mission recorder you can record and playback missions and start flying from any point in the playback.
  • You can pull up test flight video footage of real Apaches and Longbows in action. Videos also showcase the radar and avionics systems in the Longbow. Pull up some video to check out the actual maneuvers and avionics, then try the same thing in the simulation. There are also CNN-style news casts throughout the campaign that keep you up-to-date on the war effort.
  • AH-64D Longbow comes with an in-depth, 256-page spiral-bound manual packed with all the details on how to play, plus lots of great information from Jane's. If big manuals are not your thing, just try going through the interactive training missions instead. There's also a full-color heavy-duty reference card with a full keyboard layout and all the simulation commands.
  • The Official Guide to Jane's AH-64D Longbow available simultaneously with the release of the simulation. The guide is packed with intelligence files, combat tactics, maps and strategies for each mission, AI profiles, articles and excerpts from Jane's, and a whole lot more.

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