Entirely made of the 1987 Mamba helicopter. The blades are on loan from another Mamba but when I get another set of blades the tips and the front edges will be colored red as well.

Forming a partnership with General Mayhem and his former Spetsnaz operatives, Destro needed a test of what the newly dubbed "Iron Anvils" could do for his organization. The test was open ended, leaving Mayhem to his own devices; so General Mayhem launched a hit and run raid on a small outpost stationed on a small island in the Adriatic Sea. The Iron Anvils dropped down onto of the outpost and quickly subdued the few guards paving the way for a full on assault. This outpost, thought to be a coalition storehouse left abandoned after the war in Kosovo, turned out to be a G.I. Joe store house. The raid and turned up a wealth of small arms, stinger missiles... and an old Cobra Mamba. Not quite realizing what he'd stumbled upon, General Mayhem turned the Mamba over to Destro who was quick to adapt the old weapons platform for modern combat usage. The range of the helicopter was increased by 100 miles and the armaments were given a complete overhaul with the old missiles replaced by modified 'Stingers' and 'Hellfires'.

This Mamba had been captured by the Joe team years ago (Yearbook #4) and, after brief usage, was stored away to be dismantled and studied. Somewhere along the line the Mamba went missing and records of it had been closed and "sealed." Few worried about the missing piece of Cobra hardware. For the Joe's chain of command, it was more bureaucratic wrangling at work, and for the policy makers, the missing helicopter signified one less piece of paper that had to be signed. Now the stolen Mamba flies for Destro whose engineers are hard at work developing a mass production model for the Iron Grenadiers.