Built for speed, precision, and overwhelming firepower, the AH-1 Cobra isn’t just a helicopter—it’s a battlefield icon. Armed with a minigun that unleashes 4,000 rounds per minute, this attack chopper ...

"So take everything that you know about an AH-1 and [the] ordnance that it can throw off of it, and exceed that range by a ...

Bell Helicopter’s prototype for the AH-1G Cobra flies in front of two UH-1 Hueys, the aircraft it was designed to protect. What was on Mike Folse’s drawing board at Bell Helicopter that day in ...

Speed: 170 knots Range: 58 nm Propulsion: 2x GE T700-GE-401 turboshaft engines Crew: 2 Originating from a concept demonstrator delivered to the U.S. Army in 1962 based upon a UH-1 Huey, the AH ...

The Army also continued to pursue an interim attack helicopter, and Bell developed the AH-1 Cobra two-seat attack helicopter, using the Huey’s transmission, engine, rotor system, and tail structure.