Vietnam’s high humidity would necessitate continual improvements to the engine as the Huey became the taxi of the new “air mobility” school of warfare, with gunships escorting troop carriers ...

During the opening years of the Vietnam War, the U.S. military began ... to mount a 105 mm artillery gun on the chassis of a UH-1 Iroquois Huey helicopter. The engineers wanted to take the body ...

Though Huey gunship variants came equipped with ... However, the first Army UH-1 Huey unit dispatched to Vietnam called itself the “Vinh Long Cobras” due to the high population of the snake ...

The Bell UH-1 helicopter, popularly known as the "Huey," was the workhorse aircraft for U.S. forces in Vietnam. Well adapted for jungle warfare, the Huey could fly at low altitudes and speeds ...