Ahmad Shah Massoud's Mil Mi-35 (Mi-24V export variant) Black 68 resting in the Panjshir valley, 1997. The machine survived all rounds of the Afghan wars and is currently active within the Taliban air force.

@SgtBlitz_fi Beautiful! I first thought it was one of those 'find a Finnish soldier' photos 😅

@Momiktk1986 @TheMigMan2 These two jets are well known, unlike some of the other aircraft that defected to Pakistan. According to various sources, one Afghan MiG-21 landed at Kohat air base in 1986. It could have been that Red 378.

@Momiktk1986 @TheMigMan2 So the MiG Red 378 is not photoshopped, after all? I saw the photo before and precisely because there's that Pakistani pilot I thought it's fake. Morover, the number looks quite different from what was usually applied on Afghan aircraft. This one is too edgy.

@TheMigMan2 It's real, was taken in 89, the photographer's name is Guenay Ulutuncok. Can't find his collection online right now.

@Chebik2 Thank you for IDing!

RT @aaf_lukas: Former Soviet AF 43 Yellow, later transferred to the Afghan Communist govt. AF (serial 25 Black) and even later operated by…

RT @aaf_lukas: Can anyone ID this vehicle? It was photographed at the Afghan Communist army base in Nangarhar province in 1989. I assume it…

@BuschModelar @trip_to_valkiri A GB T-34 with a red insigia on the turret. Could be the same as used on other GB vehicles. By the time of the civil war, T-34s probably were turned to scrap, though.

@tom_nachtrab @MDN_Madagascar Wow. Just wow.

This is one of the very few photos of the Taliban Su-22s I've been able to find through the past 20 years. The confirmed serials are 069 (Su-22UM3K), 072 (UM3K) and 82 (M4). The source of the screenshot is this YT interview with a former Taliban pilot.

@safarpub Means they were Massoud/Rabbani government men, right? Or some other faction?

@SlavAesthetics Oh, the old roudel type! Do you have more photos of the early designs?

@TheMigMan2 @EasternOrbat Two 'interesting ones'

@elmustek @LostWeapons Exactly my experience. Still have thousands of photos of Afghan hardware in the 'unsorted' folder.

Could anyone ID this system? By the time this photo was taken in Kabul in 2002, it had long been out of service, having previously been operated by Afghan air defense forces.

RT @aaf_lukas: This is an extremely rare photo of one of a few Hekmatyar's helicopters that operated from his base of Chahar Asyab, south o…

RT @aaf_lukas: Gonna post a few engineering vehicles from Afghanistan. Let's start with this Massoud/Rabbani forces' TMK-2 trench digger. O…

RT @aaf_lukas: General Dostum's MiG-21bis, probably mid-1990s. Note R-60 AA missiles (NATO reporting name: AA-8 "Aphid") under the wings. h…

RT @aaf_lukas: Afghan Mi-17 (probably black 734) hull fitted onto what probably is a KamAZ-5410. Province of Badakhshan, late 80s. https://…