The Taliban’s efforts to increase the capacity of the air force in Afghanistan

According to the regional office of Tasnim News Agency, the Ministry of Defense of the Taliban ruling body in Afghanistan announced that 22 After completing six months of theoretical training and three months of practical training, they have been prepared for flight, flight engineering, and repair experts. The ministry stated: These people include seven pilots, two pilot instructors, 10 flight engineers, and three experts. Launching the flight system and repairing equipment. According to the Independent, “Abdul Ghafar Mohammadi”, the commander of the Taliban government’s air force, also said that these pilots successfully flew the “MI-35” helicopter. Mohammad Sadiq, the commander of the air brigade in the Taliban government, also told the media that after two years and four months have passed since the new government came to power in Afghanistan, they are trying to provide test flights for another number of people.

America and NATO forces trained the pilots of the previous government of Afghanistan and most of them were sent to NATO member countries to participate in training courses.

In the air force of the Taliban regime, Russian-made helicopters are mostly used, but the number of these helicopters is limited.

After the fall of the previous government of Afghanistan, American forces destroyed most of the helicopters and military planes and made them non-operational. Repairing and maintaining these military aircraft is very difficult and expensive.

During the war against the former government of Afghanistan and its western allies, the Taliban government suffered the heaviest blows from air attacks, and for this reason, they plan to increase the defensive and offensive capacity of their air force.

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