We’re going in.” At dawn on July 23, 1970, operations began to evacuate Fire Support Base Ripcord, in the A Shau Valley of ...

Jerry Haywood of Coshocton served in the U.S. Marine Corps as a sergeant during the Vietnam War from 1967 to 1969. Haywood is ...

The idea of the helicopter dates back to the Renaissance—but the contraptions could not be built until the development of ...

The United States seeks to deepen its military relationship with Vietnam amid talks to supply military equipment to the former adversary. While discussions have been ongoing since the arms embargo was ...

US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth said deeper cooperation would benefit both countries. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

At the height of the Vietnam War, the US Military was deeply interested in implementing a new attack chopper that would pack ...

The AH-64 Apache has been the U.S. Army’s go-to attack helicopter since entering service in 1986 (first flight in 1975).

In June 2010, the Australian Army’s 2nd Commando Regiment in Afghanistan came up with a simple but daring plan: fly into a Taliban sanctuary at night, flush out anyone prepared to fight, and kill them ...

As a young man, Lon Holmberg was a staunch critic of the Vietnam War, even protesting America’s involvement in the conflict. But when Holmberg was called to duty via the military draft, despite his ...

In the spring of 1968, Donald P. Gervais’s helicopter crashed into a ravine in the dangerous A Shau Valley in the Republic of Vietnam. He was declared missing in action (MIA) for 10 years until the ...

The US Army is moving forward with plans to operationally field the latest version of Boeing’s CH-47F Chinook heavy-lift helicopter. The service’s aviation procurement office on 30 September said the ...