Tactical Air Defense Services, Inc.(fka TADF)

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TADF - The growing market

Afghan Air Force Learns To Fly _ And Fix Aircraft
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=145380658

The challenge of forging a modern, technically proficient air force in a country at war is an immense but essential element in the West's exit strategy. The target date for having an Afghan Air Force able to operate fully independently, with about 8,000 trained personnel and 145 aircraft, is 2016.

Allied nations have already supplied refurbished Italian-built C-27A tactical transports, Mi-35 helicopter gunships and Mi-17 transport choppers. Aside from the attack helicopters, the only dedicated close air support aircraft will be about two dozen A-29 Super Tucano counterinsurgency turboprops.