Last Monday, there were reports about the flight of 22 military aircraft and 24 helicopters of the National Air Corps of Afghanistan to Uzbekistan. There were more than five hundred military personnel on these aircraft. Currently, all this equipment is concentrated at the Termez border airfield.
Amazing 16th August @planet satellite image shows the fleeing #Afghanistan Air Force aircraft that have appeared at Termuz #Uzbekistan in the last few of days pic.twitter.com/VWYbVPOokT
— Joseph Dempsey (@JosephHDempsey) August 16, 2021
In confirmation of the data, satellite photos appeared on social networks confirming the presence of several dozen aircraft at this object.
Such a large-scale relocation did not pass without incident - the Embraer EMB 314 Super Tucano light anti-aircraft attack aircraft, also known as the A-29, crashed. Fortunately, the pilots on board were still alive.
According to military expert Yuri Lyamin, apparently, in addition to winged vehicles made in Brazil, Uzbekistan also had modifications of American-made Cessna aircraft, MD-530F Cayuse Warrior and Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk combat helicopters supplied from the United States.
The last time such a large-scale flight of aircraft to another country was observed in early 1991, during Operation Desert Storm. Then, more than 130 aircraft of the Iraqi air Force, in order to avoid destruction, tried to take refuge at the air bases of neighboring Iran. As a result, the Islamic Republic adopted such modern aircraft at that time as the Su-25K, Su-24MK, MiG-29, Il-76 with long-range radar detection systems, as well as the Dassault Mirage F1, Su-22 and MiG-23BN.
Alexey Brusilov