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Aircraft Origin Type Variant In service Notes Combat Aircraft; Cessna 208: United States: ground attack / ISTAR: AC-208: 10 [1] A-29 Super Tucano: Brazil: COIN / attack: 19 [1] Transport; Boeing 727: United States VIP transport: 1 [2] former owned by Ariana Afghan Airlines [3] C-130 Hercules: United States: transport C-130H: 4 [1] Cessna 208 ...
After political intersession with Prime minister Tony Blair, the SAS were given a direct-action task – the destruction of an al-Qaeda-linked opium processing plant.The facility was located 190 mi (300 km) southwest of Kandahar at the foot of the 5,900 ft (1,800 m) Koh-I-Malik mountain, 12 mi (20 km) north of the Pakistan border, the facility was made up of a system of houses, compounds and ...
Sukhoi Su-22M3: 25 attack aircraft delivered from 1982, serving to 2001.Judging from the time, it is supposed to be the Su-22M3, an export version of the Su-17M3. Sukhoi Su-22M4: 45 attack aircraft delivered from 1984, serving to 2001. UH-60A: Four in use for training, with over 150 ordered an unlikely to be delivered in the coming years
The SAS alongside the SBS carried out numerous reconnaissance missions and diversionary raids in East and West Falkland to support the campaign. SAS forward observers also directed British artillery and aircraft. [9] [10] Operation Paraquet, 25 April 1982, successful recapture of the Island of South Georgia.
The contract for the aircraft, a 14-month effort, had the U.S. government as the end user of the aircraft due to an Italian arms embargo with Afghanistan. The U.S. declaration that the C-27A was now an Afghan Air Force asset effectively violated international law and the Italian government enforced the embargo and stopped shipment of contracted ...
On 21 March 2017, the investigate journalists Nicky Hager and Jon Stephenson released their book Hit & Run: The New Zealand SAS in Afghanistan and the meaning of honour. Hit & Run examined the NZSAS's role during the events of Operation Burnham in August 2010, drawing upon interviews with NZ military personnel, Afghan civilians, and soldiers.
Part of that comes from the risk of militant fire, as Afghanistan has been awash in aircraft-targeting missiles since the CIA armed mujahedeen fighters to fight the Soviet Union in the 1980s.
During the period of Operation Jacana, a large proportion of the SAS contingent in Afghanistan fell victim to illness that affected hundreds of other British troops at Bagram Airfield, many had to be quarantined. [132] For his conduct whilst leading the SAS in Afghanistan in 2001 and 2002, Lieutenant Colonel Ed Butler was awarded the DSO. [133]