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Huey Cobra Gunships

By: Osprey

Type: Softcover

Product Line: New Vanguard - Aircraft & Miscellaneous

Last Stocked on 2/19/2020

Product Info

Title
Huey Cobra Gunships
Publisher
Category
Author
Chris Bishop
Publish Year
2006
Pages
48
Dimensions
8x10x.25"
NKG Part #
2147398652
MFG. Part #
OSPNVG125
Type
Softcover
Series
NVG125

Description

The Bell Huey Cobra was the very first purpose-designed helicopter gunship to become operational and to see combat. Designed in the mid-1960s as an interim solution for an armed escort and close-support weapon to support the US Army in the Vietnam War, it is still being manufactured and improved in the 21st century, making it a success far beyond the wildest dreams of its creators. In this book Chris Bishop discusses the origins of the Huey Cobra, the innovations to its design throughout the years and its major combat uses in numerous theatres, including Vietnam, the Iran-Iraq War in the 1980s, US Persian Gulf escort operations, Lebanon 1983, Panama 1989, the Gulf War 1991 and in the current conflict in Iraq.