Afghan War Blog

In February 2018 Resolute Support pushed out some news releases and videos describing an increase in air strikes against insurgents in...

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...

What is Close Air Support?  A recent article tells us what CAS is. Read   "What Close Air Support Is . .  . And Isn't!" ,  F...

Film footage has been released depicting the exploits of an A-10 Fighter Squadron in Afghanistan during the fighting season of 2014. Th...

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 ...

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

EC-665 Attack Helicopter - Tiger (photo by Erwan de Cherisey) Task Force Musketeer was the name of the French aviation task force in...

Air Force Joint Terminal Attack Controller (JTAC) Shortage. In a news report (that really isn't breaking news) the U.S. Air Force say...

The U.S. Air Force wants to retire the A-10 Warthog . The close-air-support aircraft provides air support to ground troops, conducts grou...

The A-10 Treason Bird Patch is now available for U.S. Air Force officers who wish to kiss their careers goodbye. The patch is now auth...

The A-10 Warthog is considered one of the best close air support aircraft ever designed and flown in combat. A recent article ranks it as...

Everyone knows that the  A-10 retirement  is a bad thing for ground troops but a good thing for helping the United States Air Force fund its...

Two Special Forces Soldiers from the 5th Special Forces Group have been cleared of wrongdoing in a friendly fire case that occurred on Ju...

The news just doesn't get any better for the use of the new J-35 as a close support aircraft for ground troops. The Air Force would lik...

According to Afghan news agencies a NATO airstrike caused civilian casualties in the Baraki Barak district of Logar province on Friday. The...

Senator McCain, the incoming Armed Services Committee chairman, says that the A-10 will be around for a little while longer. Certainly this ...

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...

Congress is fighting hard to save the highly valued (by ground troops if not the Air Force) A-10 Warthog. This close air support aircraft ...