Service: USMC Armament: 20 mm M197 Gatling cannon; Hydra 70 rockets; 5 in Zuni rockets; TOW missiles; AGM-114 Hellfire ... based upon a UH-1 Huey, the AH-1W Super Cobra is the world’s first ...

In the 1980s, Marine Corps AH-1W Whiskey Cobras flew close-air-support ... But as with the U.S. Army’s AH-64 Apache, it was during Operation Desert Storm, i.e., the 1991 Persian Gulf War ...