Tough times for Chadian Air Force

After being tested in combat against Boko Haram, the Chadian Air Force inventory was decimated by a storm earlier this year. Arnaud Delalande charts the recent development and operations of this Central African air arm. FLASHPOINT Chad and Libya fought a series of sporadic clashes in the 1970s and 1980s before relations between the two countries normalised in 1994, triggering the poorly equipped Armée de l’Air Tchadienne (AAT, Chadian Air Force) to re-emerge as a fighting force. It acquired two