Variants and customisation

The mod adds one aircraft, the AH-64D BLOCK I, under BLUFOR → AH-64D Official Project → Helicopters. It seats a pilot (rear seat) and a copilot/gunner (front seat), plus two passengers. Everything else is a choice you make in the editor, in the field or in the mission planner.

Configuration options

Option	Default	What it changes
Fire control radar	Not fitted	The Longbow radar dome on the mast. Without it there is no FCR sight, FCR page or radar-guided Hellfire targeting. It adds weight.
Mission equipment	US	US: an IR jammer, and chaff. British: flares, a missile warning system, and chaff; no IR jammer. See Survivability.
IAFS or 1,200-round magazine	IAFS	The internal auxiliary fuel system puts a 663 lb fuel cell in the ammunition bay and leaves room for 300 cannon rounds. Swapped out, the bay takes a 1,200-round magazine and no extra fuel.
Livery	Default	Fifteen schemes, below.
Tail number	None	Up to five digits on the tail.
Pylons	Rockets outboard, Hellfires inboard	What each of the four wing stations carries. See Rearm and refuel.

In the editor

Appearance

Right-click the aircraft and choose Edit Vehicle Appearance.

• Components: Mount FCR (Fire Control Radar), Mount British Mission Equipment and Swap IAFS for 1200rnd magazine. Ticking British equipment also fits the radar.
• Liveries: Default, Default Weathered, 229th ARB (and weathered), 1/211th ARB “The Air Pirates” Utah National Guard (and weathered), United Kingdom Army Air Corps (and weathered), United Kingdom Army Air Corps Special Forces, RNLAF 301 Squadron Q-09, RNLAF 301 Squadron Demo Team, Indian Air Force, Israeli Air Force (IAF Saraf), Shield (Marvel) and Kane’s Wrath.

Attributes

Double-click the aircraft to open its attributes.

Attribute	What it does
Tail number	Up to five digits, painted on the tail. Put a space where you want a position left blank. Anything other than 0–9 is left blank.
Loadout Config	A complete loadout as JSON (radar, IAFS, fuel and pylons), applied when the mission starts. Leave it empty unless you have one.
Pylons	Arma’s own pylon editor, with the presets Combat Support, Combat Support (FCR), Heavy Attack, Heavy Attack (FCR), COIN and Empty.

Each wing station has four slots. Fill them in order: a station is drawn from its first slot, every rocket zone on a station must hold the same rocket, and a station cannot mix rockets and Hellfires.

In the field

With ACE, ground crew can change the aircraft between sorties. Each job needs a Toolkit in the player’s inventory and the part within 10 m, and takes five minutes.

ACE action	Needs	Result
Attach Fire Control Radar	An AH-64 Fire Control Radar crate nearby	The radar is fitted and the crate is used up.
Detach Fire Control Radar		The radar comes off as a crate, which you pick up and carry.
Attach 1200 30mm Magazine	An AH-64 1200 Magazine crate nearby	The IAFS comes out (you are left carrying it) and the cannon gets 1,200 rounds.
Attach Internal Auxiliary Fuel System	An AH-64 IAFS crate nearby	The magazine comes out and the IAFS goes back in, with 300 rounds.

The crates are in the editor under Props → AH-64 Parts. They can be dragged, carried, and loaded into vehicles as ACE cargo.

Set Tail Numbers, at the tail, changes the five digits one at a time. Open/Close Pilot Door and Open/Close Gunner Door work the canopy from outside.

The mission planner changes the radar, mission equipment, IAFS, fuel, pylons and tail number from one screen, and shows you the weight and performance before you commit. Use it for anything more than a quick swap.