The Afghan war is often associated with dust, solar fumes, the clanging of tracks, the deathly silence of villages, the freezing cold of mountain passes, the painful stress of engineer work... But without air support, many ground operations would be doomed to bloody failure. They - air fighters - have experienced the horrors of war; they, like the infantry, languished from the heat, attacked, took risks, pulled their comrades out from under fire, and died. And yet they, military pilots, had their own war... For the first time, invaluable material about the combat work of helicopter pilots in Afghanistan has been collected and systematized in one book.