Surely not?
PPPS (and this one's pedantry, I admit): There's no such thing as a "WAH-64D". It's a "WAH-64".
WAH-64 was/is the Westland (as was) 'model number' for the RTM322+UK bits Yeovil assembled AH-64D, but it was - from the beginning- misused by the press and elements of MOD as "WAH-64D", which I reckon is the legacy we now see.
Anyway, as I say, it is pedantry and really rather irrelevant. As MAINJAFAD points out, it's the "Apache AH Mk.1" really.
Jabba - sorry, my old, it was a bit blunt. But not knowing the US company that builds the beast rather fatally undermined the credibiity of your argument!
MOD and Jane's are wrong. 
Boeing: Boeing Delivers First WAH-64D Apache Longbow for the United Kingdom to GKN Westland Helicopters
No offence, but I'll take the MoD, Jane's and Boeing over Pprune.
Fair enough*.
The definitive answer, of course, would be from A-W since their predecessors named the baby; and nowadays they also call it the "Apache AH Mk.1" post the GKN-Westland days.
The more interesting discusion would be whether Tiger truly would be a sensible alternative to upgrading the Apache for the AAC. I can think of many arguments on the debit side; there are fewer that immediately come to mind for the credit side, but then I am more familiar with the Apache than Tiger.
*"Eppur si muove"
The definitive answer, of course, would be from A-W since their predecessors named the baby; and nowadays they also call it the "Apache AH Mk.1" post the GKN-Westland days.
The more interesting discusion would be whether Tiger truly would be a sensible alternative to upgrading the Apache for the AAC. I can think of many arguments on the debit side; there are fewer that immediately come to mind for the credit side, but then I am more familiar with the Apache than Tiger.
*"Eppur si muove"
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To be fair Boeing then go on, in that article, to refer to it as WAH-64 several times in the text.
However,
1. I prefer American designations
2. It's always fun winding up 'name-pedants'
However,
1. I prefer American designations
2. It's always fun winding up 'name-pedants'
