Afghan War Blog

A-29 Super Tucano 'Operators' Graduate from ATAC.  Special Operators with the Afghan National Army Special Operations Corps and...

AAF's  A-29s Using Guided Bombs - Almost. The A-29 Super Tucano began its first combat operations in the Afghan conflict in April ...

455th AEW Plays Key Role.  The 455th Air Expeditionary Wing has been playing a key role in the combined operations against Taliban reve...

Training Program for Afghan UH-60 Pilots Explained. The first batch of the Afghan UH-60 pilots are almost finished with the first stage...

Video on UH-60s for AAF. The Deputy Commander of the Combined Security Transition Command - Afghanistan (CSTC-A), MG Neil Thurgood, does...

AAF A-29s to MeS.  According to Afghan press accounts the Afghan Air Force has posted two A-29 Super Tucano Light Attack Aircraft to the...

International Women's Day.  The world recognized the annual International Women's Day this past week. All the major players provided...

The Resolute Support Mission is two-fold; conducting counterterrorism operations and train, advise, and assist the Afghan National Defense...

Photo : Resolute Support HQs, Jan 15, 2016 Four A-29 Super Tucanos touched down at Kabul's international airport in mid-January 201...

Kabul Airport Suicide Bombings.  A VBIED  struck the gates of Kabul airport  on Monday morning, January 4th. The driver's suicide vest...

A-29 Tucanos to Arrive. Afghanistan will be getting a COIN airframe - the A-29 Tucano - to assist in the never-ending and escalating thr...

A-29 Super Tocano A-29's Soon to Deploy - Minus a Few Pilots. Two Afghan Air Force (AAF) pilots who have been training at with the...

Some news outlets are reporting that Afghanistan may receive more Mi-35 gunship helicopters from Russia. The Mi-35 is the export model of...

U.S. Struggles to Build AAF.  Rod Nordland of the NYT details the problems the U.S. has in building the  Afghan Air Force  (AAF). ( The ...

90 Years of AAF at Shindand Air Base.  The  Afghan Air Force  may not be much to look at now but if one looks back it has a long history...

Airlift Contract for AAF.  The  Afghan Air Force  will be supported by MAG DC Corp out of Woodbridge, Virginia. MAG DC was recently a...

MD Cayuse Warrior Choppers now in Combat.  The long awaited arrival of the Afghan Air Force's  MD-520F Cayuse Warrior  scout-attack heli...

4th C-130 Arrives . The  Afghan Air Force  (AAF) received its fourth C-130 from the U.S. Air Force in late June. This completes a five-yea...

Mi-35 Gunships Going Away. The Pentagon doesn't want to do business with Russia anymore. This has an effect on the Afghan Air Force...

RAND Corporation has published a report that could be useful to air advisors of TAAC Air who are training, advising, and assisting the ...