NATO concludes AWACS mission in Afghanistan

NATO has flown the final missions of its Boeing E-3A Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) over Afghanistan, the alliance disclosed on 21 September.

Flown under the auspices of Operation 'Afghan Assist', the last mission of the NATO Airborne Early Warning and Control Force (NAEW&CF) was flown out of Mazar-e Sharif in northern Afghanistan on the same day as the announcement.

The deployment of an undisclosed number of NATO AWACS aircraft to Afghanistan was first approved in 2009, with the aircraft arriving in theatre mid-January 2011.

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