
Mi-35 afgan
Sursa: Strategypage.com
Un maior din 438th Air Experditionary Wing Combined Air Power Transition Force este primul american care zboară Mi-35 Hind în misiuni de luptă deasupra Afganistanului.
Maiorul Caleb Nimmo, pilot instructor pentru ANAAC (Afghan National Army Airc Corp) a început să zboare din anul 2000. În ultimii zece ani, acesta a zburat pe elicoptere de tip UH-1 Huey pentru Air Force li Marine Corp, avioane de antrenament T-6 Texan ca instructor pentru Undergraduate Pilot Training la Moody Air Force Base şi chiar pe MV-22 Osprey.
Americanii utilizează Mi-35 în rol de agresor la aplicaţiile Red Flag, de la baza aeriană Nellis.
„It has been absolutely an honor and a surreal experience,” a declarat Nimmo, „to work with the Afghans, the Czech Republic teams and now the Hungarians. …The Afghans are very skilled pilots and they teach me things all the time. They teach me a lot about the tactics that helped when they were working with and against the Russians and the Mujahedin and the Taliban.”
„We are not going to tell them there is only one way to do it, because this is Afghanistan and they need to establish their way of doing it, which will be sustainable far into the future.”
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