Afghan War Blog

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

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

Airpower and COIN . Much of the focus on combating the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria has been the heavy use of airpower by the United St...

Should We Unleash America's Airpower in Afghanistan?  David Petraeus (former ISAF commander and CIA Director) and Michael O'Hanlon...

A-10 - Photo by USAF Pub - Airpower in Afghanistan. Dag Henriksen has penned a report about what worked and what did not work during NAT...

A British helicopter crashed on Sunday, October 11th causing the death of two RAF personnel, two U.S. military, and one French contractor...

The Doctors Without Borders (MSF) hospital in Kunduz was apparently bombed by the U.S. Air Force on Friday causing extensive damage to t...

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...

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

General Karimi, Afghan Army Chief of Staff, says that the ANSF needs more air support - Currently there are only four  Mi-35 Attack Helico...

The U.S. Department of Defense has awarded contracts for about $40 million for the continuing of contract rotary-wing support in Afghanist...

The U.S. Air Force, proving once again that it disdains the close air support mission so vital to the U.S. Army, is trying to retire abou...

The Royal Air Force has completed their final mission with the Tornado GR4 all-weather attack aircraft in Afghanistan. The Tornados took ...

The AH-64 Apache helicopters of the 1st Attack Reconnaissance Battalion, 82nd Combat Aviation Brigade continue their operational tempo to s...

The 303rd Expeditionary Fighter Squadron  A-10 Thunderbolt pilots have completed their deployment in Afghanistan. While in Afghanistan the...

The A-29 Tucano was supposed to be in the AAF by now but Congressional meddling held up the program. The international military coaliti...

A former Army intelligence captain who was assigned to an aviation intelligence section and stationed in Jalalabad, Afghanistan in 2009 is n...

The air war in Afghanistan has been heating up. More airstrikes were conducted during the month of August than in any single month in the ...

Photo by TSgt Quinton Russ USAF It looks like the Afghan Air Force will be getting a bit of an upgrade. A contract was recently awarde...

The United States and Coalition partners are quickly reducing their footprint. In most all provinces there is no Coalition presence. In a ...