Cobra (disambiguation)

A cobra is any of several species of snake usually belonging to the family Elapidae.

Cobra or COBRA may also refer to:

Arts and entertainment

Fictional entities

• Cobra (G.I. Joe), the enemy faction in the G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero toy line and its related media
• Cobra (Marvel Comics), various Marvel Comics characters
• Cobra Unit, in the video game Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater
• Professor Cobra, a villain and member of the Martian Empire in the third season of Yu-Gi-Oh GX
• Cobra, a fictional engineered virus in Richard Preston's novel The Cobra Event
• Cobra MkIV, a heavier multipurpose ship from the Elite Dangerous universe
• Cobra, a supervillain and assassin in the comic book series Haunt
• Cobra Bubbles, a social worker and former CIA agent from Disney's Lilo & Stitch franchise

Film and television

• Cobra (1925 film), an American silent film
• Cobra (1986 film), an American action film
• Cobra (1991 film), a Pakistani film
• Cobra (2012 film), an Indian Malayalam-language film
• Cobra (2022 film), an Indian Tamil-language film
• The Cobra (film), a 1967 Italian film
• Cobra (American TV series), a 1993–1994 American action television series
• COBRA (British TV series), a 2020-2023 British political thriller television series
• Cobra Video, an American gay pornographic studio
• Space Adventure Cobra: The Movie or Cobra, based on the manga of the same name

Literature

• Cobra, a 1972 novel by Cuban author Severo Sarduy
• Cobra (manga), a 1978 manga by Buichi Terasawa
• COBRA (Timothy Zahn novel series), a novel series by Timothy Zahn and the first (1985) novel in the series
• The Cobra (novel), a 2010 thriller novel by Frederick Forsyth

Music

• Cobra (American band), a 1980s hard rock band
• Cobra (Chinese band), a Chinese all-female rock band
• Cobra (Japanese band), a Japanese punk band
• The Cobras, an American band in the late 1970s which featured Stevie Ray Vaughan
• Cobra (album), a 1987 album by John Zorn
• Cobra (soundtrack), by A. R. Rahman for the 2022 Indian film
• Cobra (Zorn), a musical composition by John Zorn
• "C.O.B.R.A." (Marie-Mai song)
• "Cobra" (Megan Thee Stallion song), 2023
• "Cobra", a 2004 song by the band Winnebago Deal
• "Cobra" (composition), a 2011 instrumental composition by Hardwell
• Cobra Records, an independent record label (1956–1959)

Roller coasters

• Cobra (La Ronde), Canada
• Cobra (Tivoli Friheden), Denmark
• Cobra, a Gerstlauer Bobsled Coaster at Paultons Park, Hampshire, England
• Cobra (PowerPark), Finland
• Cobra, a roller coaster at Six Flags Discovery Kingdom, California, United States

Other arts and entertainment

• COBRA (art movement), active from 1948 to 1951

Government and police

• Coastal Barrier Resources Act, a U.S. act of 1982
• Cabinet Office Briefing Rooms, used by UK government crisis response committees for meetings
• Cobras (Serbia), a Serbian military police unit
• Commando Battalion for Resolute Action, an Indian paramilitary unit
• Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985, a US federal statute, or health insurance provided under the act
• EKO Cobra, an Austrian counter-terror police squad
• Zulaiê Cobra (born 1943), Brazilian politician

Places

• Cobra Station, a sheep station in Western Australia
• Ilha das Cobras, an island in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Products and companies

• Cobra Beer, produced in the UK
• Cobra Golf, a brand of golf clubs and outdoor equipment
• The Cobra Group, a marketing company
• Cobra Energy Drink, an energy drink produced by Philippines-based Asia Brewery

Science and technology

Vehicles

Automobiles

• AC Cobra, a British sports car built in the 1960s, known in the US as Ford/Shelby Cobra
• Ford Falcon Cobra, a limited edition of the Ford Falcon
• Ford Mustang SVT Cobra, a sports car built by Ford between 1993 and 2004
• Ford Shelby Cobra Concept, a 2004 Ford concept car based on the 1960s Cobra
• Cobra, a 1960s Ford Shelby Mustang variant
• Torino Cobra, a 1968–1971 model of the Ford Torino

Military

• COBRA (radar), a counter-battery radar system
• Cobra BMT-2 APC, an Iranian armored personnel carrier
• ACEC Cobra, a Belgian Army armored personnel carrier
• Bell AH-1 Cobra, a US Army attack helicopter
• HMS Cobra (1899), a British Royal Navy destroyer
• Otokar Cobra, a Turkish light armoured vehicle
• Northrop YF-17, a fighter aircraft prototype nicknamed Cobra
• USS Cobra (SP-626), a US Navy patrol boat

Other vehicles

• Bombardier Cobra, in Zürich, Switzerland
• Evektor VUT100 Cobra, a Czech light aircraft

Weapons

• Cobra (missile), a Swiss/German anti-tank missile
• Colt Cobra, a line of small-caliber revolvers

Other science and technology

• Cobra (programming language), a computer programming language
• Cobra ciphers, a series of block ciphers in cryptography
• COBRA rocket engine, proposed by Pratt & Whitney-Aerojet for the US Space Launch Initiative
• CobraNet, a proprietary system for transmitting digital audio over Ethernet
• COBRAcable, a submarine power cable under construction between the Netherlands and Denmark
• Combined bisulfite restriction analysis, a molecular biology technique
• Ericofon, or Cobra Phone, a landmark of 20th century industrial design
• Novell "Cobra", codename for Novell NetWare 5.1
• CoBra, an automobile engine made by Crosley
• Cobra, a ZX Spectrum clone built in Braşov, Romania; see List of ZX Spectrum clones
• Cobra, a processor in the IBM RS64 line of CPUs

Sport

Teams and clubs

• Adelaide Cobras FC, an Australian soccer club
• Bangkok Cobras, an Asean Basketball League team
• Cape Cobras, a cricket team based in Cape Town, South Africa
• Carolina Cobras, a former Arena Football team (2000–2004)
• Charlotte Cobras, a Major Indoor Lacrosse League team in 1996
• Chicago Cobras, a former American women's soccer club (2003–2004)
• Cleveland Cobras, an American soccer club
• Cobra Sport, a South Sudanese basketball team
• Cobras de Ciudad Juárez, a Mexican football club
• COBRA Rugby Club of Malaysia
• Lapua Cobras, a Finnish basketball team
• Nordsjælland Cobras, a Danish ice hockey team
• SWU Cobras, the sports teams of Southwestern University of Cebu City, Philippines
• Terrebonne Cobras, a Canadian Junior ice hockey team

People

• Jeff Farmer (wrestler) (born 1962), American professional wrestler
• Carl Froch (born 1977), boxing world champion
• Jelle Klaasen (born 1984), Dutch darts player
• Juan José Muñante (1948–2019), soccer player
• Dave Parker (born 1951), former Major League Baseball player
• Gary Simmons (ice hockey) (born 1944), NHL goaltender
• George Takano (born 1958), Japanese professional wrestler
• Mad Cobra (born 1968), or simply Cobra, stage name of Jamaican musician Ewart Everton Brown
• Michael Willson, a.k.a. Cobra, from the TV show Gladiators

Other sport and fitness

• Bhujangasana, a yoga posture known as Cobra Pose
• The Cobra, a wrestling move used by Santino Marella (born 1979)

Other uses

• Cobra: Game of the Normandy Breakout, a 1977 board wargame about the Battle of Normandy during World War II
• COBRA (consumer theory) (consumer's online brand related activities)
• Cobra maneuver, an aerobatics maneuver
• Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA), a computer communications standard
• Operation Cobra, a 1944 World War II battle
• Robert Hatem (b. c. 1956), Lebanese former bodyguard and non-fiction writer also known by his codename, Cobra
• Typhoon Cobra, a Pacific storm

See also

• Kobra (disambiguation)
• All pages with titles beginning with Cobra
• All pages with titles containing Cobra