A light helicopter over hostile bush. No spectacle, no margin for error. Just rotors, troops, and a war fought close and fast ...

Reporting from Mexico City — A Mexican military helicopter gunship fired on the alleged hideout of a drug kingpin in one of a pair of raids that left 12 suspects dead, including the cartel capo, ...

Ahead of its time in performance and design, the Lockheed AH-56 seemed like a promising attack helicopter for the United States Army during the Vietnam War, but instead ended up on the chopping block.

On Nov. 27, a clip appeared on YouTube of a Russian-made Syrian military helicopter apparently being hit by Syrian rebels using a surface-to-air missile. The footage of the gunship, smoking as it ...

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Berchman Richard, a former test pilot, recently visited the U.S. Army Aviation Museum to see the AH-56 Cheyenne helicopter he flew in the 1970s. Richard was one of only six pilots to fly the Cheyenne, ...

The Apache attack helicopter, also known as the AH-64 Apache, is the pinnacle of modern military aviation in all its variants It was originally introduced in 1986, despite having its first flight as ...

The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) says it is planning to deploy additional fighter jets and helicopter gunships to complement ground forces fighting insurgents and bandits in the North East and North West ...

To quell anti-government protests in Syria, Bashar al-Assad's regime has reportedly employed everything from tanks to snipers. But activists tell Reuters that Syrian security forces turned to air ...