I read that US stopped production of Longbow Hellfire missiles in 2005. Could somebody confirm? If yes could anybody gave the reason? And for what purposes they use radars on AH-64’s although they didn’t use radar guided missiles?
No idea on the missles, but radar can be used to find heavily camoflaged equipment for targeting or avoidance, along with IR.
The “Longbow” is a specific variant (AGM-114L) of the Hellfire family and is radar guided, unlike other variants which are laser guided, hence the radar on certain models of the AH-64.