Still, with only a telephone call more fighters could be launched to shoot down this unarmed helicopter and convert their earlier escape into an alarmingly brief reprieve.

Helicopters with 50-caliber machine guns accompanied Mr. Bush's unarmed helicopter, and as he spoke in the desert, a German-made vehicle capable of detecting chemical, nuclear or biological attack stood guard.

During the battle he flew 22 missions in an unarmed helicopter into enemy fire to bring ammunition and supplies and evacuate the wounded.

America has already provided Georgia with boots, uniforms and unarmed helicopters.

UNIT employ unarmed helicopters for transport and light air support.

There isn't a bookmaker in the world who would give odds on an unarmed helicopter knocking a machine-gun-toting jet out of the sky.

This agile, unarmed helicopter is outfitted with outboard "benches" designed to ferry up to three commandos on each side.

They flew their unarmed helicopters from Thailand to various friendly airstrips in Laos where they could refuel and await to launch their missions.

The United Nations also said today that it would start using unarmed German helicopters Sunday in its search for Iraq's banned weapons of war, as Baghdad apparently agreed to earlier this week.

The star unit is typically an unarmed target, such as a container ship, a hanger, or an unarmed helicopter.