The new air arm’s first action, against a tribal rising in the south-east.

Wikipedia records that the new air force first saw action in 1924 and 1925 against the Khost rebellion. It was a small force of Soviet and British machines, and for its first decade Soviet pilots did most of the flying. No figures for sorties or losses were found.

结果 The rising was put down in 1925.

The role of Soviet pilots in the fighting and any casualties from air attack could not be confirmed.

为……飞行

Afghan air arm

在哪里

Khost, south-eastern Afghanistan

旁边

没有盟军空军

反对

Tribal insurgents in the Khost region

飞机

Soviet-supplied aircraft, largely flown by Soviet pilots

损失

所查阅的资料中均未记录。.

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Flew for King Amanullah against the rebellion that overthrew him.

The civil war that began in December 1928 wrecked the first air force. English Wikipedia says most aircraft were destroyed; Russian Wikipedia says the air force was dissolved in 1929 and re-formed in 1937. It was the first time an Afghan air force died with the government that created it; it would not be the last.

结果 Amanullah was overthrown; the air force was dissolved in 1929 and only rebuilt from 1937.

Details of air operations in the civil war were not found in the sources reached.

为……飞行

Afghan air arm

在哪里

Kabul and eastern Afghanistan

旁边

没有盟军空军

反对

Saqqawist forces of Habibullah Kalakani

飞机

Polikarpov R-1 and other Soviet and British types

损失

Most of the aircraft were destroyed in the civil war, per Wikipedia.

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Communist officers seized Bagram and attacked the presidential palace from the air.

On 27 April 1978 Colonel Abdul Qadir flew by helicopter to Bagram, took control of the MiG-21-equipped 322nd Air Regiment and directed the air side of the coup, while tanks under Aslam Watanjar attacked in Kabul. In the late afternoon Su-7s came in low and fired rockets at the Arg, the palace in the centre of the city; around midnight six Su-7s attacked repeatedly. Daoud was killed. The air force had made a revolution, and its commander became one of the new regime’s leading figures.

结果 Daoud was killed and the People’s Democratic Party took power.

Casualty figures are disputed: Western estimates of about 2,000 dead against about 40 claimed by Gen. Nabi Azimi.

为……飞行

阿富汗空军

在哪里

Kabul and Bagram

旁边

没有盟军空军

反对

Forces loyal to President Mohammed Daoud Khan

飞机

Su-7, 米格-21

出击

Six Su-7s made repeated rocket attacks around midnight, per Wikipedia.

损失

Estimates of all deaths range from about 40 (Gen. Nabi Azimi) to about 2,000.

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Close support, bombing and transport for the government and Soviet forces against the mujahideen.

The air war began before the invasion: in March 1979 Il-28s from Shindand bombed Herat during an uprising whose death toll is estimated at between 3,000 and 25,000. After Soviet forces arrived in December 1979 the Afghan air force grew to perhaps 400 aircraft, with regiments at Kabul, Bagram, Shindand and Kandahar and many aircraft crewed or serviced by Soviet, Czechoslovak and Cuban advisers. A status report of 1 February 1986 cited by Wikipedia gives 226 aircraft, 217 combat-ready, and 89 helicopters. Pakistan’s F-16s, by the PAF’s count, shot down at least eight intruders from Afghanistan between May 1986 and November 1988, including Afghan Su-22s and an An-26. After the Soviet withdrawal the air force kept Najibullah in power through the failed coup of 6 March 1990, when pilots loyal to Shahnawaz Tanai bombed Kabul. The war killed between one and three million Afghans by the range of estimates on Wikipedia.

结果 The Soviet army left on 15 February 1989; the government held on with air power until April 1992.

All aircraft numbers are estimates from secondary sources; Soviet and Afghan archives were not checked. The PAF kill list is Pakistan’s count; the Afghan government’s position on those incidents was not found.

为……飞行

Afghan Air Force (Democratic Republic of Afghanistan)

在哪里

All of Afghanistan and the Pakistan border

旁边

苏联

反对

Afghan mujahideen and Pakistan (border incidents)

飞机

米格-17, 米格-21, Su-7, Su-17/Su-22, 伊尔-28, 米-8, 米-24, 安-26

损失

617 aircraft · 651 killed617 aircraft and 651 aircrew lost from April 1978 to April 1992 (Wikipedia, citing Müller 2020); Russian Wikipedia says more than 600 aircraft and helicopters. Soviet forces lost 451 aircraft including 333 helicopters.

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Remnants of the air force fought for rival factions; from 1996 the Taliban flew MiG-21s and Su-22s against the Northern Alliance.

When Najibullah fell in April 1992 the air force was divided among the victors; Abdul Rashid Dostum kept an air arm in the north. The Taliban, who took Kandahar in 1994 and Kabul in 1996, inherited aircraft at both and, unusually, kept the old command structure and invited former communist pilots to fly for them. Wikipedia’s late-1990s count is five MiG-21MFs, ten Su-22s, six Mi-8s, five Mi-35s, five L-39Cs, six An-12s and about 25 An-26s. On 3 August 1995 a Taliban MiG-21 forced a Russian Il-76 to land at Kandahar; the seven crew were held for a year before escaping in the aircraft.

结果 The Taliban controlled most of the country and its air arm until late 2001.

Inventory figures are estimates; the Northern Alliance’s own air arm is not covered here.

为……飞行

Factional air arms, then the Taliban air arm

在哪里

All of Afghanistan

旁边

没有盟军空军

反对

Rival mujahideen factions and Northern Alliance (United Front)

飞机

MiG-21MF, Su-22, L-39C, Mi-8, Mi-35, An-12, An-26

损失

Not recorded. The air force fell from about 350 aircraft in 1992 to some 35–40, per Wikipedia.

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The Taliban air arm was a target rather than a combatant.

US and coalition strikes from 7 October 2001 destroyed most Taliban aviation; Russian Wikipedia says most of it was destroyed in the autumn campaign, and English Wikipedia that only a few helicopters of the air force remained. The rebuilding that followed started from almost nothing.

结果 The Taliban government fell in November–December 2001.

No count of Taliban aircraft destroyed was found in the sources reached.

为……飞行

Taliban air arm

在哪里

All of Afghanistan

旁边

没有盟军空军

反对

United States and coalition and Northern Alliance

飞机

米格-21, Su-22, Mi-8/17

出击

未记录。.

损失

Most Taliban aircraft destroyed on the ground; only a few helicopters survived, per Wikipedia.

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Troop transport, casualty evacuation, resupply and, from 2015, close air support with MD-530s, A-29s and AC-208s.

With the end of the ISAF combat mission in January 2015 and the drawdown of coalition air power, the Afghan Air Force had to provide its own fire support. MD-530s went into action in Nangarhar in 2015; A-29s followed in 2016 and on 22 March 2018 an Afghan A-29 dropped a GBU-58 laser-guided bomb on a Taliban compound in Farah, chosen, Resolute Support said, to avoid collateral damage near civilians. By the end of 2020 the DoD judged the air force able to plan and fly day and night strikes on its own, but still dependent on contractor logistics. UNAMA recorded that civilian casualties from Afghan Air Force strikes rose 126 per cent in 2020, the most it had attributed to the air force since 2009. Croatian and other NATO advisory teams mentored the Mi-17 crews; the US and NATO trained the rest.

结果 The Islamic Republic and its air force collapsed in August 2021.

Afghan Ministry of Defence strike and sortie figures were not independently verified. UNAMA’s figures are its own documentation; the Afghan government’s response was not checked.

为……飞行

Afghan National Army Air Corps, Afghan Air Force and Special Mission Wing

在哪里

All of Afghanistan

旁边

United States and NATO (ISAF and Resolute Support)

反对

Taliban and Islamic State Khorasan Province

飞机

米-17, UH-60A, MD 530F, A-29, C-208/AC-208, C-130H, PC-12, Mi-35

出击

No full count published; the MoD said at least 83 missions in two days in April 2016.

损失

Pilots were targeted for assassination in 2021 (SIGAR). UNAMA: Afghan Air Force strikes caused 76 per cent of the 693 civilian casualties from air strikes in 2020 (341 killed and 352 injured in all).

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Flew the government’s last strikes and resupply missions, then evacuated aircraft abroad.

US contractors withdrew in May and June 2021, and SIGAR later reported that about 60 per cent of Black Hawks were grounded within months; pilots were targeted for assassination off base. As provincial capitals fell, crews flew aircraft north. Uzbekistan said 22 aircraft and 24 helicopters had been "forced" to land at Termez, with 585 personnel by Wikipedia’s count; The War Zone identified at least six A-29s, about 11 PC-12s, about seven Black Hawks and about 19 Mi-17-type helicopters on satellite imagery. At Bokhtar in Tajikistan about 150 personnel arrived, 143 of them pilots per The Diplomat, and were held in a sanatorium until flown to the UAE on 9 November 2021. At Kabul airport US forces disabled the aircraft they left behind.

结果 Kabul fell on 15 August 2021; the air force as a state institution ended, and its remaining aircraft passed to the Taliban.

Aircraft counts vary between Uzbek statements, satellite analysis and later reporting; the number of aircraft that reached Tajikistan was not confirmed (Wikipedia mentions two aircraft). The number disabled at Kabul (73, per Wikipedia) could not be confirmed from a US government page.

为……飞行

Afghan Air Force and Special Mission Wing

在哪里

All of Afghanistan; aircraft flown to Uzbekistan and Tajikistan

旁边

没有盟军空军

反对

塔利班

飞机

A-29, UH-60A, 米-17, MD 530F, C-208/AC-208, PC-12, C-130H

损失

One A-29 lost in Uzbekistan, reportedly in a collision with an Uzbek MiG-29 (both crews ejected, per The War Zone). 46 aircraft reached Uzbekistan; the number that reached Tajikistan is disputed.

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No documented air role; the Taliban retaliated on the ground while Pakistan struck from the air.

Between 9 and 19 October 2025 Pakistan carried out air and drone strikes in Afghanistan, saying it was targeting the leadership of the Pakistani Taliban (TTP), including its leader Noor Wali Mehsud, who survived. Wikipedia’s account records no Afghan air force or drone involvement; the Taliban answered with ground attacks on Pakistani border posts. It showed the limits of an air arm with no fighters and no known air defence of its own.

结果 Ceasefire agreed in Doha on 19 October 2025, mediated by Qatar and Turkey; later talks in Istanbul broke down.

All casualty figures are each side’s own claims except UNAMA’s civilian figures; this account relies on Wikipedia’s summary of media reporting.

为……飞行

伊斯兰酋长国空军

在哪里

Kabul, Khost, Jalalabad, Paktika, Kandahar and the border

旁边

没有盟军空军

反对

巴基斯坦

出击

None documented.

损失

Casualty claims differ sharply: Afghanistan claimed 58 Pakistani soldiers killed; Pakistan acknowledged 29 and claimed more than 200 Afghan and TTP fighters. UNAMA documented civilian casualties.

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Target of Pakistani air strikes; the Taliban-led Ministry of Defence claimed drone strikes on Pakistani military sites.

Pakistan began air strikes on 21 February 2026 against what it called TTP and Islamic State camps, then widened them to Kabul, Kandahar, Jalalabad airport and, on 1 March, Bagram. On 27 February the Taliban-led Ministry of Defence announced "airstrikes" on Pakistani military sites at Faizabad, Nowshera, Jamrud and Abbottabad; Pakistan denied some of the strikes and said it had intercepted drones. On 28 February Afghan forces claimed to have shot down a Pakistani fighter over Jalalabad; the man captured turned out to be a civilian parachutist, and Pakistan called the claim propaganda. Afghanistan’s Ministry of Defence also said air-defence fire had been directed at Pakistani aircraft over Kabul.

结果 Ongoing at the time of checking; no lasting ceasefire.

Every loss claim here is one side’s claim; none has been independently confirmed. The account relies on Wikipedia’s summary of media reports, including The New York Times for the Bagram claim.

为……飞行

伊斯兰酋长国空军

在哪里

Afghanistan and north-western Pakistan

旁边

没有盟军空军

反对

巴基斯坦

飞机

无人机

损失

Pakistani officials said the strike on Bagram on 1 March 2026 destroyed an unknown number of Black Hawks, C-130s and Super Tucanos; no Taliban confirmation was found. Pakistan claimed 684 Taliban fighters killed by 15 March; the Taliban claimed more than 307 Pakistani soldiers killed by 6 March. UNAMA documented at least 56 civilians killed and 129 injured by 6 March.

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