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English: Pictured is an RAF Chinook HC2 (now HC4) Helicopter at Kandahar Airfield in 2010.

Behind is a Sikorsky HH-60M MEDEVAC Black Hawk Helicopter.

Kandahar Airfield, Kandahar Province in Afghanistan was used by the RAF for combat operations from 2001 to 2014.

Part of Kandahar Airfield was known as RAF Kandahar, It operated RAF, Fleet Air Arm and Army Air Corps aircraft and was one end of the "Air Bridge" that started in RAF Brize Norton in the UK.

All other ISAF airborne forces were also based there.

Kandahar International Airport as it was called originally is located some 10 miles South-East of the city of Kandahar in Afghanistan.

It is the country’s second international airport and one of its biggest military bases, it has the space for over two hundred military aircraft.

  • Organization: RAF
  • Object Name: 38GpPO-Official-20100526-174-004
  • Category: MOD
  • Supplemental Categories: Foreign Aircraft, Aircraft, Equipment, Afghanistan, Theatres, Operations
  • Keywords: HC4, HC2, Royal Air Force, MEDEVAC, Black Hawk, KAF, Kandahar, airfield, Afghanistan, Moving, Flying, Weather, Climate, Hot, Dry, US Army, RAF, Equipment, Aircraft, Helicopter, Support, Chinook, Medical, International
  • Country: Afghanistan
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Author SAC Tim Laurence
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26 May 2010