"I take full responsibility! Here's the deal: The commanders all recommended it!"
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.
OPINION: This article contains commentary which reflects the author’s opinion
> We could easily take out all of their helicopters and vehicles, however we seem unwilling to do so. <
The Taliban are 7th century savages. But they are not stupid. So suppose they quietly sent this message to the US: We are not at war with you, and we do not want to be at war with you. But if you attack our new weapons, we will start killing the hostages you left behind.
As others here have noted, Biden’s bungling has left the US with no good options. None.
“Can’t image the will last long without spare parts. Unless we left that too.”
Or trained specialized mechanics.
Should be easy to identify the taliban from civilians now, just look for whoever is flying or driving or carrying our militsry vehicles, and take them out . Ourselves we’d have to temporarily,paint our own war machines differently to help avoid misidentification when we get there, but there will,be all kinds of easily identifiable targets with taliban in them now, and our side won’t have to guess whether a vehicle is simply,a civilian vehicle, or taliban run one.
Trump will say after he invades and cleans up the mess caused by the incometent faux president, “finding and killing the enemy was easy, they were the ones driving around in stolen equipment. Whichever compound one of our stolen vehicles was at, we
Wiped the whole complex out, knowing that the enemy was in the compound”
Too bad we didn’t install onstar on the vehicles before they were shipped over there for the tsliban to take. Too ad some general or someone didn’t figure out that shipping tons of machines over there right before withdrawal meant that our faux cic was infact doing it as a gift to,the taliban, and installed onstar without anyone knowing it. Heck install it along with a beacon that guided missiles could,zero in on
“They just executed an Afghani folk singer. The Biden regimes contribution to the arts”
Yeah, but Biden’s kid’s an artist, so, kind of a wash, in the big scheme of things.
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My thoughts exactly. They just lied for Allah.
Flying them is one thing, landing them safely is entirely another.
I assume the former afghani government pilots we taught are flying the helicopter. Voluntary or involuntary they are flying it. Getting future parts will be the biatch.
The next question is why didn’t Dementia Biden order the B52s he sent over there to bomb bagram af base before the terrorists could move it? (”Biden sends B-52 bombers to the Gulf”).
“Congratulations” to the Biden/SorozNazi administration for giving another country and billions of dollars of the latest advanced American weapons to the IslamoNazi Empire/Califate Builders.
And, let’s not forget to thank the Biden/SorozNazi people for importing tens of thousands of bloodthirsty anti-American, anti-Christian Islamic adherents (mostly actual terrorist murder gangsters, too) intro USA cities and towns, so that they can murder us right here in our own homes and neighborhoods.
The very last thing USA needed was more anti-American Moslems and especially those who are already murdering Americans and many other innocent people.
Apparently the only American weapons we will be bringing home from the war are those that the Taliban “refugees” bring with them to use on us?
They have the equipment, but it will need to be maintained.
There is the Achilles Heel.
Nobody, that's why they were just taxiing.
And yes that is sarcasm.
We know how, biden left them behind. Took the soldiers home first and they took it all. Raided the whole lot. And I bet Iran is getting some of it. It wasn’t a accident.
That is the same thing I was going to say.
Either fly the helicopter or lose your head.
Tough choice.
So I’m a trained pilot and/or mechanic that can fly and/or work on American helicopters and I’m left to rot by the stupid Americans. The Tally Wackers come to me and say, teach us how to fly this helicopter or we’ll rape and kill your family then we’ll slit your throat. The next words out of my mouth are, “Please open your training manual to page one.”
“.... Who Is Teaching Them How to Operate The U.S. Equipment...”
We probably are...part of Bidens “deal” with the Taliban.
Since “country” is an abstract concept that few liberals can wrap their minds around, I would say Joe just listened to the Sixties Radicals in his circle and thought he could be the hero for arranging an abrupt pullout - and at the same time give a gift to Xi Jinping so he will keep what he knows about Joe and Hunter to himself for a little while longer...
Biden gave it to them.
why does the name Bobby Garwood come to mind...
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