A UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter flies above a parked A-29 Super Tucano attack aircraft at Kandahar Air Base, Afghanistan.
Developed for purposes of anti-guerrilla warfare, the Super Tucano became during the WWZ a useful auxiliary for many armies and supra-national organizations. Its cost of maintenance relatively inexpensive compared to planes unsuitable for the war against the zeks, made it very useful for reconnaissance and support missions and even to maintain links between different outposts. Still deployed in many air forces, the Tucano should be modernized in the decade 2020-2030 in order to receive new anti-zeks tracking and elimination tools.