AAF Strike Story for AFN

AFGHANISTAN

03.06.2018

Video by John Roberts 

Resolute Support Headquarters

The Afghan National Defense and Security Forces have one tool the Taliban does not.

(planes montage)

An Air Force capable of taking out the enemy from the air.

Captain Nizami // AAF Munitions Maintenance Officer "We are building bombs."

This is where the Afghan Air Force makes bombs.

Nizami "Our guys are working to put components on bomb bodies."

From here they are put on the A-29 Super Tucano.
An Afghan Tactical Air Controller from the ground calls in the strike to the Afghan crew above and then…

(boom)

The air force is also armed with the MD-530.

AAF MD-530 Aircraft Commander "One of the vitals duties of the MD-530 in Afghanistan is to provide close air support to friendly forces in the combat zone."

As the MD-530 Aircraft Commander, this captain calls the shots on the attack helicopter’s missions.

Commander "We will defend our country until the day we die."

In the Afghan Air Force...from the pilots to boots on the ground...the message to the enemy is clear.

Nizami if they try to kill the Afghanistan people, we are trying to build lots of munition and bombs to kill them

• Date Taken: 03.06.2018
• Date Posted: 03.10.2018 06:07
• Category: Package
• Video ID: 588948
• VIRIN: 180306-N-QG671-001
• Filename: DOD_105394944
• Length: 00:01:13
• Location: AF