The glory window for warplanes passes quickly, but these iconic models earned a place in aircraft eternity with performances ...

President Trump's travel ban on a dozen countries includes Afghanistan. Since American troops left in August of 2021, many ...

“As the Taliban ... Hawk helicopters, two MD-530 light helicopters, two Mi-24 helicopter gunships, and one fixed-wing transport aircraft — all of which have since been observed flying ...

Three years after overrunning Afghanistan, Taliban militants who now control ... shows two Soviet-origin Mil Mi-24 Hind attack helicopters flying in formation over the parade, along with at ...

Named after the Native American people of Oregon and Washington state ... strayed into Soviet airspace while on a training mission. The Soviets detected the helicopters on radar and scrambled a MiG-23 ...

By signing up you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc. They had just finished a three-day operation that destroyed a major Taliban weapons cache. American Chinook ...

Operating with no lights save for the faint green glow of night vision goggles and cockpit instrument panels, the two helicopters ... Taliban time to react, he ordered the entire force to fly ...

The team would also be dispatched to find any American aviators in case ... By early August, the helicopters had stopped flying. The Taliban were the closest they’d come to reclaiming control ...

necessary to keep the helicopters flying. Conversely, last year's attempt to fly an American UH-60 Black Hawk by the Taliban had an unsurprising outcome: The available evidence suggests that russia ...

B-35 bombers and Black Hawk helicopters, and other military equipment left behind? With the American-trained Afghan military and police forces swiftly overrun by the Taliban in the summer of 2021 ...

WASHINGTON — An independent watchdog who investigated U.S. military operations in Afghanistan said Tuesday that American ... that the Taliban are actually flying some of the helicopters and ...

"It never happened, even when I was the lone air adviser in (Taliban-dominated ... Afghan pilots McCain helped train to fly American-made Black Hawk helicopters became known as the Afghan Eagles ...