1.   Backed by combat helicopters, the commandos surprised the crew and took the ship without a fight, they said.

2.   By one estimate, the rockets used for three Russian combat helicopters hired to defend Kisangani were billed at four times their cost.

3.   Daewoo was selected by the government to develop and manufacture light combat helicopters for the Korean military.

4.   Co-pilot Max Evans, who, like Cox, flew combat helicopters during the Vietnam War and is a veteran Skycrane pilot, said the installation was relatively routine.

5.   Focused in the southern provinces of Putumayo and Caqueta, the drive has involved crop-dusters spraying herbicides, combat helicopters and American-trained counternarcotics battalions.

6.   Fierce fighting erupted in the evening on the outskirts of Jerusalem as Israel ordered combat helicopters into action to supress gunfire from a Palestinian village to the south.

7.   Israeli combat helicopters fired machine guns as Palestinian gunmen shot back.

8.   Israeli combat helicopters were reportedly circling the Palestinian city of Ramallah late Tuesday.

9.   It was the second of these low-flying combat helicopters to crash before they have engaged in military action.

10.   Moldovan government officials announced earlier this year that they would sell the planes and use the proceeds to buy combat helicopters.