The Soviet air armies in Central Asia supported the 40th Army in Afghanistan, which came under the Turkestan Military District.

Kazakhstan did not exist as an independent state during the Soviet war in Afghanistan, and its air force did not fight in it. But much of what it inherited did. The 73rd Air Army, reformed in Alma-Ata after the Second World War, was the Air Forces of the Central Asian Military District from 1980 to 1988, and Wikipedia says it supported the war in those years. The 40th Army, the Soviet force in Afghanistan, came under the Turkestan Military District, whose 49th Air Army from 1988 included the 737th Fighter Aviation Regiment at Ayaguz in the Kazakh SSR. When the district was dissolved, Kazakhstan took over part of its units and equipment. The sources checked do not show which Kazakh-based regiments flew over Afghanistan, or how many sorties they flew, so no figures are given.

Výsledek Soviet withdrawal completed in February 1989; the district’s aviation units were divided among the Central Asian republics in 1992.

Based on Wikipedia’s articles on the 73rd Air Army, the Kazakh Air Defence Forces and the Turkestan Military District; the regiment-level record was not verified from primary sources.

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Soviet Air Forces: 73rd Air Army (Air Forces of the Central Asian Military District) and from 1988 the 49th Air Army of the Turkestan Military District

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Afghanistan, from bases in Soviet Central Asia

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Democratic Republic of Afghanistan

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Afghan mujahideen

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Soviet tactical aviation of the Central Asian and Turkestan districts

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—No sortie count for units later taken over by Kazakhstan was found.

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Losses of units later inherited by Kazakhstan were not established; overall Soviet losses are not given here because they cannot be attributed to these units.

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No combat role for Kazakh military aviation was documented in the sources checked; Russian transport aircraft flew in the CSTO contingent.

Protests that began on 2 January 2022 turned into riots. Armed groups seized Almaty airport, and the government reported that five aircraft had been taken there. President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev asked the Russian-led Collective Security Treaty Organization for help. He later said that when he did so the country had been in danger of losing control of Almaty, its biggest city. About 3,000 Russian paratroopers arrived from 6 January, with around 500 Belarusians, 200 Tajiks, 70 Armenians and a Kyrgyz contingent. Russia said more than 70 aircraft were flying them in around the clock. On 11 January Tokayev announced that the mission had done its job and that a phased withdrawal would be complete within ten days, and the last troops had left by 20 January. The sources checked do not describe any Kazakh air operations. Afterwards the government revised its weapons plans, citing “the events of January”.

Výsledek Order was restored; the CSTO contingent withdrew between 13 and 20 January 2022.

Casualty figures and the characterisation of the events are the Kazakh government’s; Tokayev spoke of terrorists threatening Almaty. Any role of Kazakh military aviation was not confirmed.

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Armed Forces of the Republic of Kazakhstan (role of the Air Defence Forces not documented)

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Almaty and other Kazakh cities

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Collective Security Treaty Organization (Russia, Belarus, Tajikistan, Armenia, Kyrgyzstan)

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Rioters and armed groups (per the Kazakh government)

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Russian military transports (CSTO airlift)

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—Russia’s Ministry of Defence said more than 70 aircraft were flying around the clock to bring its troops in.

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227–238 people were killed in the unrest (official figures reported by Wikipedia and RFE/RL); two soldiers were reported killed retaking Almaty airport. No aircraft losses were reported.

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