The remote sensor and command capability from the Gray Eagles can help an Apache "spot a target," which the armed helicopter can then attack itself.

Armed helicopters are being flown in from warships acting on unreliable local intelligence.

Mr Bush's entourage flew into the city from Bagram Air Base in a flotilla of heavily armed helicopters.

Dozens of armed helicopters monitored the pilgrims' progress, literally herding them through bottlenecks that occurred in certain stretches along the way.

'We can beat an armed helicopter?'