May 8, 2018: The Afghan Air Force is in the midst of replacing its Russian Mi-17 helicopters with American UH-60s. There are several reasons for this. For one, the new generation of Afghan pilots ...

A report from the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) has made clear that the country's UH-60 Black Hawk programme is beset by pilot training issues, with a lack of ...

The arrival of these first UH-60 Black Hawk heralds in a new era. The international community... remains committed to our Afghan partners to bring about the end of the Taliban." Advertisement ...

The United States successfully recovered seven UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters that Afghan army pilots used to escape the Taliban in 2021. This is just a portion of the massive stockpile of equipment ...

Tactical air control party Airmen with the 3rd Air Support Operations Squadron conduct jump training out of UH-60 Black Hawks at the Malemute Drop Zone at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska ...

Afghan UH-60 helicopters had a 77% readiness rate in April and May, that then plummeted for several reasons to 39% in June. The readiness rate for the AC 208 light aircraft declined to 63% in June ...

This delivery comes unannounced, as the UH-60 Black Hawk was not included in ... Ukraine the helicopters that formerly belonged to the Afghan government, but only explicitly mentioned the Russian ...

Although the Mi-17 fleet forms the backbone of the Afghan Air Force, the U.S. government plans to supply 159 UH-60 Black Hawks to Afghanistan by 2024. The first Black Hawks began arriving in ...

Helicopter pilot training for the Afghan army at Fort Rucker is shifting to UH-60 Black Hawks now that the Russian Mi-17 training program has come to an end. The Aviation and Missile Command's ...

The UH-60 helicopter crashed several miles east of ... On Wednesday, U.S. special forces detained two men near the eastern Afghan town of Jalalabad suspected of making bombs.