The Marine Corps has officially retired the AH-1W Super Cobra helicopter. After 34 years of service and more than 930,000 flight hours, the AH-1W Super Cobra attack helicopter made its final flight ...

The US Marine Corps (USMC) has officially retired the Bell AH-1W Super Cobra attack helicopter from its fleet, after more than 34 years of service. The light twin-engined helicopter was based on the ...

U.S. Marines drink the blood of a king cobra as part of jungle survival training during exercise Cobra Gold 2020 at Ban Chan Khrem, Chanthaburi, Kingdom of Thailand, March 2, 2020. (Lance Cpl. Hannah ...

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals has demanded the Marine Corps stop allowing a bunch of “giddy Marines” to cut off the heads of cobras and drink their blood during the annual Cobra Gold ...

Helicopter-maker Bell has delivered its final AH-1 airframe to the US Marine Corps (USMC). The Textron subsidiary said on 2 November that the handover of the 189th AH-1Z Viper, originally known as the ...

“Gear accountability” is a long-standing maxim in the military, and it was probably on the mind of one Marine attack-helicopter pilot when he made an unorthodox landing on Nov. 18 in a public park on ...

1st Marine Aircraft Wing has started to phase out the AH-1W Super Cobra for the AH-1Z Viper in Okinawa, Japan. The AH-1Z Viper comes as an upgrade to the previous AH-1W Super Cobra, bringing improved ...

PETA said U.S. Marines caught behind enemy lines should turn to “vegan options” as they fight for life in jungles across the globe. The animal rights group recently blasted an annual jungle survival ...

PATTAYA, Thailand — Children clad in bright pink polo shirts laughed, danced and cheered during a visit from U.S. Marines taking a community-relations break from two weeks of Cobra Gold military ...

After two years of intense training, Marine Maj. Jasmin Moghbeli became one of NASA’s newest astronauts Friday. The Marine joins the force as it eyes putting the first woman on the moon and the first ...