The Afghan air force, which the U.S. and its partners have nurtured to the tune of $8.5 billion since 2010, would now be the government’s spearhead in its fight against the enemy.

An Afghan Air Force UH-60A Black Hawk assigned to the 2nd Wing Afghan Air Force, conducts dust off landing practice on Dec. 10, 2018, as a part of Train, Advise and Assist Command-Air’s (TAAC ...

An Afghan Air Force UH-60A Black Hawk assigned to the 2nd Wing Afghan Air Force, conducts dust off landing practice on Dec. 10, 2018, as a part of Train, Advise and Assist Command-Air's (TAAC-Air ...

The Super Tucano, though, will offer the Afghan air force significantly more firepower. For the first time, the Afghan military will be able to drop bombs of 250 to 500 pounds from its own aircraft.

The Afghan air force ferried 35,500 personnel around the country this year, an increase of about 10,000 personnel over last year. Afghan aircraft carried 1.1 million kilograms of cargo this year, ...

Months before President Joe Biden announced the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan last year, Washington’s watchdog warned that the Afghan air force would collapse without critical American aid.

The Afghan air force received its first Black Hawks last fall and agreed to set aside the first 10 for training with U.S. military advisers as a means of sustaining the mission, Goodyear said.

An Afghan Air Force helicopter is pictured through the shattered glass of another aircraft near a hangar at the airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Aug. 31, 2021.

An Afghan air force technician maintains a helicopter for an early morning takeoff from Kabul International Airport, Afghanistan in 2013. Afghan maintainers said theyve been practicing remote ...

Taliban fighters in the cockpit of an Afghan Air Force aircraft at Kabul Airport on August 31, 2021 -- the day the U.S. pulled the last of its troops out of Afghanistan.

The American pullout is revealing that the very viability of the Afghan air force is in ... Afghanistan — The UH-60 Blackhawk plummeted like a roller coaster from 10,000 feet — safe from ...