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In 2006, the Afghan National Army Air Corps was established, and was renamed the Afghan Air Force in 2010 while remaining part of the Afghan National Army. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] Since 2007, the U.S.-led Combined Air Power Transition Force, renamed the NATO Air Training Command-Afghanistan in 2010, aimed to rebuild and modernize the Afghan Air Force. [ 10 ]
The Afghan Air Force (Pashto: افغان هوايي ځواک, Persian: قوای هوایی افغانستان), officially known as the Afghan Air Force and Air Defense and sometimes referred to as the DRA Air Force or DRAAF, [1] was the aerial warfare branch of the Afghan Armed Forces from 1978 until the dissolution of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan in April 1992.
Mil Mi-35: As of 2015, 6 in Air Force service, to be partially replaced by 20 Embraer A-29 Super Tucano [7] Nieuport 24: Unknown number obtained from 1921; Pilatus PC-12: Special operations ISR/ light transport/ utility aircraft, operational from 2014; Potez 25: One obtained in 1928, destroyed in 1929
former owned by Ariana Afghan Airlines [3] C-130 Hercules: United States: transport C-130H: 4 [1] Cessna 208: United States transport / utility: 24 [1] Pilatus PC-12: Switzerland: transport / utility PC-12NG: 18 [1] [4] assigned to the Special Mission Wing: Helicopters; Mil Mi-17: Soviet Union: utility: Mi-8/17: 95 [1] 56 aircraft are in use ...
Three men who died in a small plane crash in Oregon were Afghan Air Force pilots who fought with the American military and came to the U.S. as refugees after Afghanistan fell to the Taliban in ...
Bagram Air Base: Charikar, Parwan Province: Established in the 1950s, Bagram is the largest military air base in Afghanistan. It was a primary center for U.S. and allied forces for cargo, helicopter, and support flights. It has a 3,000-meter runway capable of handling heavy bomber and cargo aircraft. Hamid Karzai International Airport: Kabul ...
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List of active aircraft of the Afghan Air Force; List of military equipment used by the mujahideen during the Soviet–Afghan War This page was last ...