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We got inside an AH-1W Super Cobra, the world's first attack helicopter

Daniel Brown   

We got inside an AH-1W Super Cobra, the world's first attack helicopter

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One of the aircraft the Navy showed off at New York City Fleet Week in May was the AH-1W Super Cobra, the Marine Corps' first attack helicopter.

Based on the UH-1 Huey, the Super Cobra is the world's first attack helicopter.

The Super Cobra is used in close air support for Marines under fire and sometimes for coordinating artillery strikes, with pilots ordering the strikes from the air.

But the Super Cobra is being replaced with the AH-1Z Viper, the Corps' newest attack helicopter, and is expected to completely phased out by 2020.

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