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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.
Bell Textron, a subsidiary of Textron, has successfully completed the delivery of final AH-1Z Viper production aircraft developed for the Kingdom of Bahrain.
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