The Super Tucano will replace the Mi-35 attack helicopter providing a monumental leap in capabilities for the Afghan Air Force. Learn more about the A-29 Super Tucano in this video on Military.com.

The Taliban claim to have at least 4,300 former Afghan Air Force service personnel and 33 pilots who joined them under the offer of amnesty. The Taliban may also have some operational A-29 Super ...

Five out of 15 airstrikes that the Afghan Air Force conducts each day are carried out by A-29 light attack aircraft. The U.S. Air Force placed an order for six additional light attack aircraft for ...

As Islamabad tightens its stance on Afghan refugees, many pilots fear deportation or even worse, considering the Taliban ...

The Afghan air force is made up of a small contingent of A-29 Super Tucano turboprop light-attack aircraft (it will have 20 by the end of 2018), and Wilson said the Air Force would look to assist ...

In a classified January 2021 report, SIGAR warned that the Afghan air forces were unsustainable without continued U.S. support. The newly declassified report explains why. As the Afghan government ...

Statistics do not include strikes by the U.S. Army, which fields attack helicopters in Afghanistan, or the Afghan Air Force, which has deployed a growing number of its own armed aircraft.

He left PEOPLE in 2023. A pregnant Afghan woman, who was fleeing the Taliban in Kabul, went into labor on Saturday as she and her family evacuated aboard a U.S. Air Force plane. The unnamed mother ...

An Afghan Air Force pilot was killed by a bomb in a Kabul district on Saturday, officials said, in an attack claimed by the Taliban. Hamidullah Azimi was killed when a sticky bomb attached to his ...