[DannyTN]

Kudos to any afghans that prevented our aircraft from falling into the hands of the Taliban.

[Mr Fuji]

The Afghans weren’t going scorched earth retreating and destroying the aircraft. Even if they had time to do so, I doubt they would’ve done it.

The problems are first, I doubt the Taliban could fly a kite, so forget a military aircraft (I could be incorrect though). Second, they weren’t flying them to “friendly” airbases (where would that be BTW being surrounded by snakes) but instead to Uzbekistan. Guess who gets the aircraft to exam? Mother Russia, if not China.

[mcshot]

It seems to be a Muslim MO where you fly your planes to a neighboring country to save your plane/butt.

[lepton]

Kudos to any afghans that prevented our aircraft from falling into the hands of the Taliban.

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Those planes are very different from the ones we sell to other countries.

So, how the heck did the Afghan pilots get into the U.S. planes? Security should have shot those trying to even touch them.