Afghanistan: MoD repairs Indian Cheetal helicopters

KABUL, 26 April 2022, (TON): The Ministry of Defense said “it has repaired some Cheetal helicopters provided by India to the former government in Afghanistan.”

Defense Ministry’s spokesman Enayatullah Khawarazmi said “the repairing of other choppers that have functioning issues is underway.”

He said “we have 60 aircrafts. They were repaired by the engineers and the maintenance team.”

Earlier, the Defense Ministry said that 40 out of 80 helicopters had technical issues that mostly happened during the collapse of the former government.

Col. Mohammad Naeem, an Afghan pilot said “this helicopter was completely broken. Its avionics were broken. We fixed them and they are ready for flight.”

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