Preserved at the then entrance of Kabul International Airport, this Su-22M-4 Fitter of the Afghanistan Air Force. Check how the roundel on the tail is incorrectly levelled with the horizon, but maybe correct in its preserved condition.

Equiped with double-barrel 30 mm cannon.

This former Trans World Airlines (N959U, from July 1988) and American Airlines (N959U, from December 2001) is seen during take-off from Kandahar. Weird to see such a sleek civil colourful aircraft taking off from a war location, where camouflaged jet fighters, helicopters and unmanned aerial systems, often fully armed, are operating from the same runway. The MD82 started flying with Kam Air from September 2008. Since September 2017, the aircraft is reported withdrawn from use. Since that month it is in use at an amusement park in Kabul city.

Just in time to picture it... an unmarked IL-76TD, possible owned by Eastern Express at the time of its visit to Kandahar.

All white Candid of a company named ZetAvia. So many Russian transports arrived at Kandahar those days.

This former US Army Huey (ex 67-17200) was registered to the US Department of State on 8 Feb 2008 as N325SD (not visibly carried), and cancelled 5 Nov 2022. Since January 2018, the DoS Air Wing is officially named Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs' Office of Aviation, or INL/A. The INL/A has over 200 aircraft and helicopters on strength, making it one of the largest non-military aviation arms in a US federal government agency.

This former US Army Huey (ex 72-21628) was registered to the US Department of State on 7 Dec 2006 as N8230Q (not visibly carried), and still current as such by 2023. The Department's aircraft can be used for many types of missions, which vary by location. These may include (armed) drug eradication, interdiction, reconnaissance, surveillance, command and control, medical evacuation, transportation of personnel or cargo.

This Mi-17 of Valan was first noted at Kandahar early '10, for several years it operated in Afgh. under a contract with Aircraft Charter Solutions (UAE) in support of the US Gvmt. ACS provided airlift support for Afgh. security forces, in the mid-tens out of Mazar-i-Sharif. The Mi-17 was written off on 24 Nov'15 when was hit by a Taliban rocket over Faryab. The helo caught fire and made a forced landing in Pashtun Kot district, 1 of 3 crew and 2 of 18 Afghan soldiers on board were killed, 18 survivors were taken hostage by the Taliban. The Mi-17 was canx from register between 11 Mar'16 and 30 Sep'16.

Only a small marking on its engine bay reveals the origin of this Army Aviation Black Hawk, the 2nd Battalion (Assault), 82nd Aviation Regiment named "Corsair".

On its route to possible Taliban targets over Afghanistan. The Royal Netherlands Air Force deployed four F-16AMs on a rotational basis to Afghanistan for some ten years. This J-199 is marked with an 311 sqn badge, this squadron was disbanded in September 2012.

In the heatwaves of Kandahar, a Vertical-T Mi-8 is executing a landing at Kandahar.

An unmarked CH-47F Chinook deployed with the 82nd Aviation Regiment, originating from at Fort Bragg (NC).

An Afghan National Army - Air Corps An-32B seen during an overshoot over homebase Kadahar airfield. The aircraft was delivered in April 1991 to Afghanistan and was withdrawn from use as per June 2011, it's current fate is unknown.

This aircraft belongs to a small and secretive fleet that supports American special operators around the world, including the shadowy Joint Special Operations Command, or JSOC. N80BZ is one of the US Special Operations Command's Tactical Airborne Multi-Sensor Platforms, or STAMP aircraft. The Beech is a dedicated intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance platform but has a special task in locating and monitoring hostile communications transmissions, like geo-locating emissions from cell phones. In that way the US Army can track particular individuals and spoof spoof wireless networks.