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An AH-64 Apache attack helicopter hovers before takeoff from Balad Air Base, Iraq, Jan. 3, 2008. A 30-mm automatic Boeing M230 chain gun is located under the fuselage, which provides a rate of fire of 625 rounds per minute.

APACHE HOVER

An AH-64 Apache attack helicopter hovers before takeoff from Balad Air Base, Iraq, Jan. 3, 2008. A 30-mm automatic Boeing M230 chain gun is located under the fuselage, which provides a rate of fire of 625 rounds per minute.

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