The U.S. military has a reputation for using only the flashiest, most expensive equipment around. But in the case of its ...

Helicopters have been used throughout the each U.S. military branch for decades, fulfilling a number of roles. The Marines favored this one.

As mighty a force as the SuperCobra was, time and the relentless march of technology waits for no attack helicopter. As the SuperCobra was an advanced take on the Cobra, so the SuperCobra would be ...

Overall, the Cobra had a lengthy production run of 55 years, serving as one of the most formidable aircraft in the American military. As the world's first dedicated attack helicopter, it changed ...

The modern attack helicopter was developed during ... The result was the AH-1 Cobra, a helicopter that carried a 20-mm cannon and 70-mm rockets. After the war, the Army adapted the Cobra to ...

Marvel, like most Marines, refers to the AH-1Z as the “Cobra,” the moniker of previous versions of the attack helicopter. Modern Cobras, like the first ones developed in the mid-1960s ...

The call came over the radio on the Cobra attack helicopter: Return to base to resupply. The gunship’s ammo was almost exhausted. Fuel was running low. The Cobra’s commander, 1st Lt.

the Marine Corps’ modernized and current version of the Cobra attack helicopter, Fishman was impressed by the complexity of the controls and taken back to the simpler days of the G-model Cobra ...

Friends who all at one point trained here on the AH-1G Cobra Attack Helicopter. “All these guys back here remember the G model Cobra and they all remember Savannah, Georgia,” says David Sale, and Army ...

originally known as the Cobra, to the USMC marks the completion of the service’s programme of record for the H-1 type, which also included the UH-1 Huey utility lift helicopter. “The first ...

On the night of June 18, 1968, then-1st Lt. Taylor flew his Cobra attack helicopter to rescue the men after they had become surrounded by the enemy. "It was pitch black. No moon. No stars.