Armed escorts lead the way along the former front lines, and attack helicopters keep watch overhead.
Attack helicopters and unmanned drones will increasingly be used to support ground operations instead.
An incoming Indian unit is bringing artillery and attack helicopters greatly increasing the UN's fire-power.
Turkey wants more from its American friends, including Cobra attack helicopters and armed Reaper drones.
Russia announced that it was carrying "Syrian attack helicopters, " state-run news agency Ria Novosti reported.
At one point, a fleet of seven attack helicopters suddenly roared overhead and raced toward the battlefield.
U.S. officials have said the ship is carrying attack helicopters and munitions from the port of Kaliningrad.
Russian officials said it was carrying repaired attack helicopters that the Syrian regime would use for defensive purposes.
Algerian military forces, backed by attack helicopters, launched two assaults on the plant, the first one on Thursday.
Last month, U.K. authorities said a ship carrying Russian-refurbished attack helicopters to Syria turned back after its insurance cover was stripped.
The army brigades, which were not identified, depend on the UN for military support such as attack helicopters, the official said.
It agreed to the dispatch of 24 Apache attack helicopters to neighbouring Albania, along with a contingent of 2, 000 support troops.
On another occasion, U.N. attack helicopters with troops on the ground killed more than 200 members of a militia group moving on Goma.
More than 50 Apache attack helicopters, Black Hawks and Chinooks and a dozen Air Force planes joined 1, 500 troops on the ground north of Baghdad.
Obviously, flying attack helicopters in Iraq, is a very dangerous business.
The skies over Aleppo that used to buzz to the sound of attack helicopters and the roar of fighter jets are largely clear, at least for now.
This raises big questions for companies such as Boeing, which has recently booked a multibillion-dollar deal to sell dozens of F-15 fighters and attack helicopters to Saudi Arabia.
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Teams of Marines backed by Cobra attack helicopters, .50-caliber machine guns, grenade launchers and TOW missiles patrolled the area around the camp, carrying photographs of al Qaeda leaders with them.
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It includes ground troops with supporting artillery, amphibious assault vehicles and light armour, plus transport and attack helicopters and perhaps AV-8B Harrier jet fighter-bombers, capable of taking off and landing vertically.
Even so, Colombia is not planning to ask the United States to donate sophisticated attack helicopters, such as Apaches, whose use would be subject to close congressional oversight on human-rights grounds.
But considering the urgency of the situation, are the -- I mean, calling them out for sending attack helicopters is, in the context of this diplomacy, probably somewhat extraordinary given the circumstances.
America has agreed to give Turkey three Cobra attack helicopters to be used against the PKK, but the sale may run into congressional opposition because of the enmity between Turkey and Israel.
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It might have had something to do with the row of sinister attack helicopters, which I saw at every major airport in Darfur - the presence of which, I suppose, the Sudanese government is not too keen to publicise.
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Both actions started with the use of ground forces ruled out, saw escalating airstrikes, the indictment of the enemy leader for war crimes, and when hope of a quick solution by airpower faded, the dispatch of attack helicopters to the theatre.
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Recently, Syria has attempted to get some of its Mi-24 attack helicopters refurbished by Russia -- a move which prompted an international outcry -- and has ordered Yak-130 advanced training jets and MiG-29 fighter jets that have yet to be delivered.
And the modernisation plans comes as the UK is increasing its ability to deploy forces abroad, with six new roll-on, roll-off ferries, and the leasing of four giant C-17 cargo planes, leased from the Americans, which can carry Apache attack helicopters or Chinooks around the world.
"We were able through Nato to stand up with command and control, we were able to get our assets moving very quickly, we were more than capable within the limitations we had to get our air power projected... to ensure that we had Typhoon and Tornado performing very effectively, of course very recently adding in our Apache attack helicopters, " he said.
Although his family paid the ransom, he managed to escape during a military attack with helicopters on the site he was held captive at the end of 2006.
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