Pakistani troops, accompanied by gunship helicopters, moved into an area southwest of Miran Shah, the main town in North Waziristan, and faced stiff resistance.
In July 2006, Pakistani president General Musharraf targeted him through aerial bombing, using air force jets and gunship helicopters.
Prior to that Iran had donated some AH-1 helicopters to Pakistan in mid-1970s, which Pakistan used as its main gunship helicopters against insurgents during the Balochistan conflict.
An order to the Iraqi Army to cease fire against its own people, backed by a threat to destroy all moving planes, gunship helicopters and tanks.
Instead of them attacking Tiger, Tiger would attack them, and this time the expedition would be accompanied by gunship helicopters.
October 19 Military gunship helicopters pounded suspected militant hideouts after unidentified gunmen killed a security official in Civil Colony Miranshah, headquarters of North Waziristan on Friday.
Due to sanctions, the Iranian government has encouraged production of domestically manufactured planes and, since 2002, has built its own transport aircraft, fighters, and gunship helicopters.
The AIM-9 Sidewinder is an infrared homing, short-range, air-to-air missile carried mostly by fighter aircraft and recently, certain gunship helicopters.
Nowadays the system is rather superfluous due to the lack of a threat from sophisticated gunship helicopters, but development continues.
Why has President Bush rejected his own human and military instinct to prevent Saddam Hussein's gunship helicopters from massacring Iraqi rebels?