Posted on 08/30/2021 8:36:54 AM PDT by USA Conservative
A video recently posted on social media showed Taliban fighters looking on as an iconic piece of US materiel (military hardware) – a Black Hawk helicopter – was piloted across Kandahar airport.
The four-blade multi-purpose aircraft was just taxiing on the tarmac, but the exercise sent a message to the world: the Taliban were no longer a group of ragtag soldiers wielding Kalashnikov assault rifles on battered pickup trucks.
Elsewhere, since the fall of Kabul on 15 August to the hard-line Islamist group, the Taliban’s fighters have been pictured showing off a host of US-made weaponry and vehicles.
Some of them were seen in complete combat gear in social media posts and couldn’t be distinguished from other special forces from across the world. There was no characteristic long beard, or traditional salwar kameez outfit, and certainly no rusted weapons. They looked the part.
They seized these weapons after troops from the Afghan National Defence and Security Forces (Ands) surrendered one city after the other.
Video below:
Some on social media said this made the Taliban the only extremist group with an air force.
Taliban new arsenal:
Waters said this about the tragedy in Afghanistan:
It gets worse and worse and worse the more we find out.”
But indeed is becoming worse by the day!
Last week we had a good laugh when the Taliban tried to fly the BlackHawk but only managed to drive it through the airport.
Well, today we have a video from Kandahar Province where the Taliban did fly for the first time with the Black Hawk.
Video below:
It didn’t take them long to figure that out, or perhaps someone is teaching them how to operate all of our equipment?
It takes skilled pilots to fly one of them, they must have been training a long time!
Americans who trained Afghan pilots and ground crews are now raising the alarm about their safety. Though some flew out of the country, others are still in Afghanistan, hiding from the Taliban. And they are desperate to get out, fearing the Taliban may learn their identities and retaliate. Black Hawk helicopters can cost up to $21 million. In 2013, the U.S. placed an order for 20 A-29 Super Tucano attack aircraft for $427 million – that’s $21.3 million for each plane. Other specialized helicopters can cost up to $37 million each.
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“HOW THE HELL DID THEY GET U.S. EQUIPMENT????”
From the closed air base thanx to Biden.
One would expect that at least some of the Afghan army pilots who were trained to fly the Blackhawks would have defected to the Taliban forces.
Last man out of the airport could have tossed a grenade in all of these but I guess the upper brass didn’t want to waste good hand grenades. Idiots!!
see post 11
Who Is Teaching Them How to Operate The U.S. Equipment
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Chinese Wolf Warriors (Spec Ops troops)
The bigger question is will Biden order the USAF to drop bombs on all of these parked planes at 1 minute past midnight on Wednesday morning.
I’m sure most of the other heavy combat equipment is still parked as well. It’s not like their all driving around town in 22,000 Humvees and M117s.
Yes, how are these operations being sustained - maintenance and parts. Stop maintenance and these things fall out of the sky in short order.
sorry post 18
Taqiya
My former brother in law retired from the USAF. He then went to work as a maintenance contractor for the Saudi Royal Air Force. He said that the Saudi mechanics were lazy and that they could ‘t get anything done on the aircraft because they were too busy praying 5 times a day
They just executed an Afghani folk singer. The Biden regimes contribution to the arts
https://nypost.com/2021/08/30/afghan-folk-singer-fawad-andarabi-killed-by-taliban-for-playing-music/
“Who Is Teaching Them How to Operate The U.S. Equipment”
Take your pick: China, Pakistan, Iran, Afghan army under threat, ...
I wouldn’t be surprised if Biden ordered out military to teach them. Nothing surprises me with Biden and his gang of commies.
Yep.
That is a sure thing. They threaten those that know how to operate that equipment by the execution of their family and they do what they are told.
The weather will be a problem when these half assed flyers try and fly in even rain.
old navy saying, smooth sailing never made a good seaman. Blue skies don't make you an experienced pilot
Should be some new military contracts soon. Anyone know if Hunter Biden is now a contract broker too?
The weather will be a problem when these half assed flyers try and fly in even rain.
old navy saying, smooth sailing never made a good seaman. Blue skies don't make you an experienced pilot
Thanks, globalists.
Th3 taliban growled, ‘leaders’ wet themselves, and delivered them boatloads worth billions
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