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On December 23, 2007, Canadian media reported that the Canadian Forces would supply the Afghan National Army with 2,500 surplus Colt Canada C7 rifles (a Canadian variant of the M16), along with training and ammunition in order to Westernise Afghan equipment. In June 2011, the Afghan National Army returned the loaned C7 rifles as the ANA ...
Military uniform; Universal Camouflage Pattern United States: Combat uniform: Unknown number in service, captured from the United States Army during the War in Afghanistan. Used in unconventional warfare to attack government targets. [10]
First supplied to Afghanistan on Lenin's orders in 1919 [5] Submachine gun; Heckler & Koch MP5SD West Germany: Submachine gun: Unknown number ordered from West Germany prior to the Saur Revolution. Used by Hafizullah Amin's security detail in Storm-333. [6] PPSh-41 [3] Soviet Union: Submachine gun: Phased out by 1980, were handed out to ...
The Afghan Armed Forces, officially the Armed Forces of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (Pashto: د اسلامي امارت وسله وال ځواکونه, Dari: نیروهای مسلح امارت اسلامی افغانستان) [3] and also referred to as the Islamic Emirate Armed Forces, is the military of Afghanistan, commanded by the Taliban government from 1997 to 2001 and since ...
Pages in category "Military equipment of Afghanistan" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
The following is a list of lists of currently active military equipment by country. Afghanistan. List of active aircraft of the Afghan Air Force;
Antonov An-32: As many as seventy three received from 1987 as military cargo transports suited to Afghanistan's hot and high environment, operational until 2011; Avro Anson 18: 13 received from 1948, with the last removed in 1972; Bartel BM-4b: One obtained in 1928; Breda Ba.25/28: Eight obtained from 1937, eliminated by 1945
Regular army units were armed with Soviet-made weapons and military equipment. Most DRA soldiers were equipped with either AKM and AK-74 assault rifles. [ 57 ] In the early 1980s, civilian self-defense forces were equipped with older PPSh-41 submachine guns, which were phased out for more modern rifles closer to the regime's end.