http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dy...1805630.html?hpid=topnews&sid=ST2010061805889
This doesn't sound good either:
I thought the H-47 was also working extremely well in Afghanistan."If people come and fly in Afghanistan with the Mi-17, they will understand why that aircraft is so important to the future for Afghanistan," said Brig. Gen. Michael R. Boera, the U.S. Air Force general in charge of rebuilding the Afghan air corps. "We've got to get beyond the fact that it's Russian. . . . It works well in Afghanistan."
This doesn't sound good either:
Defense officials and analysts said that U.S. helicopter manufacturers, struggling to produce enough aircraft for U.S. forces in Afghanistan and Iraq, might not have the capacity to make more for the Afghan air corps right away.