US To Buy 20 Fighter Planes for Afghan Air Force: ISAF

[Feyen]

The United Sates has committed that it will buy 20 fighter jets for the Afghan Air Force, the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) Spokesman, Brigadier General Gunter Katz told TOLOnews on Tuesday.

The ISAF spokesman said that all ISAF member countries including the US are trying hard to equip and empower the Afghan Air Force.

The Afghan Government is also putting extra effort to own an equipped and powerful air and land forces in order to provide security for the country. The Afghan forces are currently facing lot of challenges and shortfalls.

"We know that the Afghan people are concerned about the equipment for the Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF). And yes indeed, we already provided lot of equipments for the ANSF. But we have to acknowledge that there are still some shortfalls and we always said that individual nations sit together, discuss with representatives from the Government and the army how to overcome those shortfalls. And one example of those negotiations is the recent announcement of the US Air Force that declared that they are willing to buy 20 fighter air planes for the Afghan Air force," Isaf Spokesman, Brigadier General Gunter Katz told TOLOnews.

It is said that the Afghan security forces are facing lot of challenges even in the transportation section and it will take some more time, when the Afghan Air Force will independently lead air operations. But, the Afghan Ministry of Defence (MoD) believes that some of the challenges will be dealt with when the Afghan forces receive these fighter planes.

"The US has committed that 20 fighter planes will be given in the current year (2013). The fighter planes will be used for two operations: bombardment missions and discovery missions," MoD Spokesman, General Zahir Azimi told TOLOnews.

The shortfalls and inabilities of the Afghan security forces have cost them heavily. Because of the shortfalls it hasn't been able to carry out air operations independently. The MoD also accepted the shortfalls.

"ISAF in coordination with us is carrying out several operations within Afghanistan and we hope to become competent soon," General Zahir Azimi told TOLOnews. MoD expects that Afghan military forces will be equipped with fighter planes, transport planes and drones within few years.

US To Buy 20 Fighter Planes For Afghan Air Force: Isaf

 

[Kompromat]

Tejas or AMCA?

 

[madooxno9]

Tejas or AMCA?

Trolling at its best and then you ban me for trolling ?

 

[Kloitra]

Tejas or AMCA?

Whom to report a mod's trolling?

 

[That Guy]

Tejas or AMCA?

-_-

The US is going to probably buy them cheapos, as the Afghans don't have the money to support advanced fighters in the long run.

I'm guessing a Russian or Chinese plane, maybe an old second hand Mig or Su, maybe it's a Chinese A-5 or J-7.

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[GR!FF!N]

Fighter Jets??They were buying 20 Ground Attack Aircrafts,right??If true,then it'll be the best news they got for Air Force in Years.. congratulations are in order then
@Aeronaut

you're a mod,right??they why are you adding oxygen to the trolls???some guys will troll anyhow(as it is in their nature to troll into threads where any positive news on Afghanistan got posted)..don't encourage them,please...

 

[Kloitra]

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Thanx, but you probably didn't get the question.

 

[GR!FF!N]

-_-

The US is going to probably buy them cheapos, as the Afghans don't have the money to support advanced fighters in the long run.

I'm guessing a Russian or Chinese plane, maybe an old second hand Mig or Su, maybe it's a Chinese A-5 or J-7.

J-7 got out of production.and as USA are buying these jets,its quite impossible that they'll hand over orders to China or even Russia(Afghanistan got Mi-17s though).most probably it'll be either some US built jets(as the money will go into USA) or 2nd hand jets from friendly countries(cheap)..

 

[Icarus]

So what kind of planes are we looking at? That will determine the real dynamics of the situations.

 

[Argus Panoptes]

So what kind of planes are we looking at? That will determine the real dynamics of the situations.

Probably Tucano or Hawk category aircraft Sir.

 

[Feyen]

So what kind of planes are we looking at? That will determine the real dynamics of the situations.

probably A-29 Super Tucanos.

 

[SURYA-1]

Squadron of F-16 without source codes ie. with kill switch in US hands.

 

[That Guy]

J-7 got out of production.and as USA are buying these jets,its quite impossible that they'll hand over orders to China or even Russia(Afghanistan got Mi-17s though).most probably it'll be either some US built jets(as the money will go into USA) or 2nd hand jets from friendly countries(cheap)..

That's why I said second hand. There are plenty on the market, and the Chinese are still trying to get rid of their own J-7s. Same goes with the Russian planes, there are plenty of second hand Russian fighters on the market.

The US has already contracted the Russians for helis, so why not fighters? The US itself already buys a few fighters from the Russians for aggressor training.

American fighter are just too expensive for Afghanistan, it's one of the reasons why Afghanistan is getting the Super Tucano from Brazil.

probably A-29 Super Tucanos.

Probably Tucano or Hawk category aircraft Sir.

They have those already, the US is talking about fighters, not bombers.

Squadron of F-16 without source codes ie. with kill switch in US hands.

A squadron of F-16s would be too hard and expensive for Afghanistan to maintain.

 

[@nline]

Tejas or AMCA?

 

[IamINDIA]

probably old f-16s

can't think of anything else...