Sixty years ago today, on September 7, 1965, the Bell AH-1 Cobra lifted off for its maiden flight. Known as the Bell Model 209 in prototype form, the helicopter was flown by test pilot William Quinlan ...

The oldest attack helicopter ever fielded by the U.S. military is also the first attack helicopter: The Bell AH-1 Cobra, which first entered service in 1967. Born out of the Vietnam War, the AH-1 was ...

The HueyCobra was vastly different from any helicopter that had ever been built to that point. The Bell AH-1 Cobra is an attack helicopter that was developed from the famed UH-1 Iroquois, or “Huey,” ...

When the Vietnam War broke out in 1965, the introduction of the Bell UH1 single-engined attack helicopter quickly proved a game-changer in air cavalry. However, despite its tremendous capability for ...

Alexander Syrsky said attack helicopters such as the AH-64 Apache and AH-1 Super Cobra, along with UH-60 Black Hawk utility helicopters, also were on Ukraine’s wish list MOSCOW, January 12. /TASS/.