An Afghan sandstorm can literally turn day in night in a matter of seconds and these images show what the event looks like as seen from inside the cockpit of a C-130J Hercules waiting to taxi for a local mission.
Sandstorms move extremely fast and can completely obscurate large areas in a very short time.
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