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The Afghan Armed Forces, officially the Armed Forces of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (Pashto: د اسلامي امارت وسله وال ځواکونه, Persian: نیروهای مسلح امارت اسلامی افغانستان) [3] and also referred to as the Islamic Emirate Armed Forces, is the military of Afghanistan, commanded by the Taliban government from 1997 to 2001 and since ...
The Islamic National Army (Pashto: اسلامي ملي اردو, Islāmī Milli Urdu), [2] [3] [4] also referred to as the Islamic Emirate Army and the Afghan Army, is the land force branch of the Afghan Armed Forces.
The Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan, known as the Armed Forces of the Republic of Afghanistan after 1986, was the national military of Afghanistan from 1978 to 1992. History [ edit ]
Over 10,000 captured from the Afghan National Army and US Armed Force. [1] [2] M16 United States: Assault rifle: 104,000 M16A2 and M16A4 variants used. [3] Captured from the former Afghan National Army. [1] Colt Canada C7 Canada: Assault rifle: Formerly used by ANA, now turned over to Canada and disposed of. [4] AK-47 Soviet Union: Assault ...
The commandos were members of two units CF 333 and ATF 444, known as the Triples, who were paid, trained and fought alongside UK special forces in Afghanistan. Armed forces minister Luke Pollard ...
On December 23, 2007, Canadian media reported that the Canadian Forces would supply the Afghan National Army with 2,500 surplus Colt Canada C7 rifles (a Canadian variant of the M16), along with training and ammunition in order to Westernise Afghan equipment. In June 2011, the Afghan National Army returned the loaned C7 rifles as the ANA ...
American and Nato forces left behind military equipment worth over $7.2bn when they fled Afghanistan – much of which now lies in a state of disrepair in the hands of the Taliban, as Arpan Rai ...
Air Defence Forces consisting of two SAM regiments at Kabul, an AAA Battalion at Kandahar, and a radar regiment at Kabul; The Mil Mi-24 and Mi-35 (export model) attack helicopters have a long history in Afghanistan. The aircraft was operated extensively during the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, mainly for attacking mujahideen fighters. Early ...