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Over 10,000 captured from the Afghan National Army and US Armed Force. [1] [2] M16 United States: Assault rifle: 104,000 M16A2 and M16A4 variants used. [3] Captured from the former Afghan National Army. [1] Colt Canada C7 Canada: Assault rifle: 2,500 captured from former Afghan Army AK-47 Soviet Union: Assault rifle [4] Type 56 China: Assault rifle
The United States military provided the ANA with M16 rifles as part of a modernization effort. M4 carbine United States: Carbine: 10,000 Only used by Afghan National Army Commandos and Special Forces. M4s sold as part of a 2006 Foreign Military Sales package. Additional M4s sold as a 2008 Foreign Military Sales package. FB Beryl Poland: Assault ...
Military transport aircraft: at least 6 in 1987 [41] Antonov An-26, Antonov An-24, and Antonov An-2 Soviet Union: Military transport aircraft: 40+ [38] Antonov An-12 [34] Soviet Union: medium-range transport aircraft: Trainer aircraft; Aero L-29 Delfín Czechoslovak Socialist Republic: Trainer aircraft: 18 [21] MiG-15UTI Soviet Union: Trainer ...
From the 1960s to the early 1990s, the Afghan Army received training and equipment mostly from the Soviet Union. The Royal Afghan Army was also photographed wearing white “snegurochka” winter suits in snowy areas of the country [31] and also had armored riverboats in their inventory, as seen in a parade in Kabul.
In 1967, the 444th Commando Battalion wore the standard khaki Afghan Army uniform, as well as a distinct blue patch with a singular red lightning flash and jump wings with a light blue cloth backing. The Afghan commandos wore Soviet-style pilotkas, adorned with a small metal pin of the Royal Afghan Army’s insignia or a military variant of ...
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1. Gigayacht. Sold for: $168 million Roman Abramovich, a Russian billionaire, must have been staring at an empty dock for a while now, because the 168 milly he shelled out for a 400-foot yacht is ...
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 ...