The US Marine Corps (USMC) has begun retiring a limited number of its Bell AH-1Z Viper attack helicopters to the ‘boneyard’ despite deliveries to frontline units continuing. An AH-1Z recently arrived ...

Back in 1962, the United States Marine Corps (USMC) placed its first order for a helicopter Bell was building on the H-1 platform. It was the famed UH-1 Iroquois, also known as the Huey. It was ...

The US Marine Corps has delivered an upbeat message on the Bell AH-1Z/UH-1Y modernisation programme at Le Bourget, despite cost over-runs on the helicopters' integrated avionics suite which have ...

The Bell Textron AH-1Z Viper, an attack helicopter designed to operate and destroy targets in extreme environments, achieved IOC in February 2011. The first USMC Bell AH-1Z to receive the Structural ...

US Marine Corps personnel assigned to Marine Operational Test & Evaluation Squadron 1 (VMX-1) conduct operational checks on AH-1Z Viper to ensure the aircraft readiness during the Operational Test and ...

The U.S. Marine Corps released plans on Sept. 16 to select multiple vendors over the next four years to perform “concept advancement” studies on the Attack Utility Replacement Aircraft (AURA), a ...

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 ...

The upgrade is part of the new Digital Interoperability suite that will be later extended also to the UH-1Y Venom. An AH-1Z Viper of the Air Test and Evaluation Squadron (HX) 21 demonstrated for the ...

“It’s a little bittersweet,” she said. “I love flying helicopters; I love flying the Cobra and I know that this is potentially my last flight ever, or at least my last one for a long time, but I’m ...

The final AH-1Z Viper lands at Camp Pendleton. Marine Corps photo Aviators at Camp Pendleton have taken delivery of the last AH-1Z Viper attack helicopter produced by Bell Textron for the Marine Corps ...

Two U.S. Marine Corps pilots died March 30 during a training mission in a Bell AH-1Z Viper as part of a weapons tactical course in southwestern Arizona. The pilots were flying the attack helicopter in ...