Taliban crash helicopters despite maintaining air force US actions resulted in Afghan aircraft destruction Taliban struggles to maintain and operate aircraft A Taliban-operated Soviet-era Mi-17 ...

The five helicopters are part of a $1.4 billion contract for the delivery of an estimated 150 armed MD-530 rotorcraft to Afghanistan by 2022. The recent delivery increases the Afghan Air Force’s ...

I command the Chinook Flight of the Canadian Helicopter Force Afghanistan, Canada’s first ... and various forward operating bases. I was the air mission commander for two Chinooks, escorted ...

When the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan ended in 1989 and civil war broke out, this air force, which once owned 350 aircraft, splintered into groups attached to five warring factions.

Statistics do not include strikes by the U.S. Army, which fields attack helicopters in Afghanistan, or the Afghan Air Force, which has deployed a growing number of its own armed aircraft.

Aging aircraft, fewer platforms and a lack of replacements for retired systems has impacted the US Air Force’s lethality and training capabilities ... The Chinook has served in every RAF campaign of ...

Azimi was trained in flying U.S.-made UH60 Black Hawk helicopters, and he had been working with the Afghan Air Force for almost four years, Afghan Air Force Commander Abdul Fatah Eshaqzai told ...

The aircraft's commander took action, increasing the air pressure ... according to a U.S. Air Force rep. What We Know and Still Don't Know About the U.S. Exit from Afghanistan and the Country's ...