{"id":17977,"date":"2026-07-20T06:00:19","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T06:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/07\/20\/taliban-reactivates-mi-17-helicopter-after-repairs\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T06:00:19","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T06:00:19","slug":"taliban-reactivates-mi-17-helicopter-after-repairs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/07\/20\/taliban-reactivates-mi-17-helicopter-after-repairs\/","title":{"rendered":"Taliban Authorities Reactivate Mi-17 Helicopter After 13 Months of Repairs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Taliban&#8217;s Ministry of Defense announced that an Mi-17 helicopter belonging to the air force command has been reactivated and is ready to fly after 13 months of repairs and technical tests.<\/p>\n<p>According to information released on the ministry&#8217;s X page, the helicopter underwent &#8220;comprehensive repairs,&#8221; technical tests, and evaluations by engineers and technicians before returning to operational status.<\/p>\n<p>Officials of the ministry described this move as an important step to enhance the technical capacity, readiness, and operational capability of the air forces; a claim made despite military equipment refurbishment being a routine responsibility of any governing authority.<\/p>\n<p>Mi-17 helicopters have been among the major equipment of Afghanistan&#8217;s air forces in recent years and have been widely used in transport and support operations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Taliban&#8217;s Ministry of Defense reactivates an Mi-17 helicopter after 13 months of repairs, boosting air force operational readiness and capacity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17976,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}