The USMC also asked for an attack variant with as much commonality as possible with its utility variant. The service’s AH-1 attack helicopter is based on its UH-1, with the two models sharing 85 ...

The company completed deliveries of the AH-1Z’s sister-ship, the UH-1Y in 2018. With 160 UH-1Ys handed over to the USMC, the combined modern H-1 Program of Record (POR) came to 349 aircraft.

The H-1 programme is also focused on improving the existing fleet of Bell AH-1Z Vipers and UH-1Y Venoms with upgraded electronic warfare systems, Link 16, an increase in available electrical power ...

U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s Air and Marine Operations (AMO), El Paso Air Branch conducted the final flight of the UH-1N ‘Huey’ helicopter for the agency on July, 29, 2020. The UH-1N is a twin ...

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.

The news about the first test of the new capabilities arrived just a few days after the USMC announced that the H-1 mixed fleet, composed by both the AH-1Z Viper and UH-1Y Venom, surpassed the ...

In a first, Marines participating in an integrated training exercise at Marine Corps Air-Ground Combat Center 29 Palms, California, got supplies delivered via an autonomous UH-1 Huey in an ...

It was the UH-1 that was mostly the ‘daily driver’ for hops into and out of areas of operations for us guys. It took us into some pretty hot areas, but it usually also returned to retrieve us ...

The combined helicopter fleet of the USMC comprising the AH-1Z Viper and UH-1Y Venom have flown for over 400,000 hours in ten years ...

A Marine Corps UH-1 Huey is missing in Nepal, where it was part of the earthquake relief force operating in the mountainous country.