The Royal Bahraini Air Force now has one of the largest AH-1 Cobra attack helicopter fleets in the world.
Comprising 17 upgraded AH-1FB Cobras and 12 AH-1Z Vipers, known locally as ‘Zulus’, that’s an undeniably large number of gunships for such a small island.
However, to understand why, you have to go back to April 1986, when Qatar attacked Bahrain’s Hawar Islands in a bid to take them over.
As the Hungarian Air Force steps up its long-running modernisation effort, the force commander Major General Nandor Kilian details some of his priority programmes to Alan Warnes Modernisation of the Hungarian Air Force (HuAF), a programme kn.