The four Embraer/Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) A-29 Super Tucano light attack aircraft recently acquired by the Afghan Air Force (AAF) were forward deployed to Jalalabad Airfield in Afghanistan's eastern province of Nangarhar on 28 February. The four A-29s - the first of 20 such airframes that the United States is providing to the AAF -only arrived in Afghanistan on 15 January and were initially stationed at the military airport in Kabul. The aircraft, which are fully combat ready, are intended to give close air support (CAS) to ground operations performed by the Afghan National Army's (ANA's) 201st Corps, although as of 1 March they had not yet flown any combat sorties, according to Major Shirin Agha, spokesman for the 201st Corps.
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