Posted on 08/25/2021 8:59:53 AM PDT by Red Badger
f you thought the Joe Biden Afghanistan disaster was bad now – things are going to get much worse. Joe Biden supplied the Taliban terrorist organization and their Islamist accomplices with billions of dollars worth of US armaments. Rather than destroying the equipment before leaving the country, Joe Biden decided to leave the nearly $85 billion worth of US military equipment to the Taliban.
As The Gateway Pundit reported on Sunday — Joe Biden left 300 times more guns than those passed to the Mexican cartels in Obama’s Fast and Furious program. A more complete list was created with public information and help from other intelligence sources. The list does not include all the extra kinds of nonlethal equipment, everything from MRE’s, Medical Equipment, and even energy drinks. The big story might be the pallets of cash the Taliban have been posting videos of pallets of weapons and stacks of $100 bills they have seized. Earlier this week we posted a more complete list of US-supplied equipment abandoned to the Taliban by Joe Biden. Thanks to Lance Migliaccio for the list.
One example is below:
If the Taliban has 208 military aircraft then according to the NationMaster list the Taliban now ranks #26 of all countries in the number of military aircraft.
One example is below:
It also appears the Taliban seized way more ScanEagle drones than the government is saying they did. There is no accounting on the number of crashed units.
Direct Quote from Report “This also raises concerns about how NAVAIR justified procuring 105 ScanEagle vehicles totaling over $32 million and spare parts totaling over $52 million, and future planned procurements.”
This week, the SIGAR audit on the $174 million drone loss disappeared from its website. Here is the link that was removed.
From 2017 to 2019, the U.S. also gave Afghan forces 7,035 machine guns, 4,702 Humvees, 20,040 hand grenades, 2,520 bombs and 1,394 grenade launchers, according to the since removed 2020 SIGAR report
The numbers keep growing.
Here is a breakdown of estimated vehicle costs:
* Armored personnel carriers such as the M113A2 cost $170,000 each and recent purchases of the M577A2 post carrier cost $333,333 each.
* Mine resistant vehicles ranges from $412,000 to $767,000. The total cost could range between $382 million to $711 million.
* Recovery vehicles such as the ‘truck, wrecker’ cost between for the base model $168,960 and $880,674 for super strength versions.
* Medium range tactical vehicles include 5-ton cargo and general transport trucks were priced at $67,139. However, the family of MTV heavy vehicles had prices ranging from $235,500 to $724,820 each. Cargo trucks to transport airplanes cost $800,865.
* Humvees – ambulance type (range from $37,943 to $142,918 with most at $96,466); cargo type, priced at $104,682. Utility Humvees were typically priced at $91,429. However, the 12,000 lb. troop transport version cost up to $329,000.
* Light tactical vehicles: Fast attack combat vehicles ($69,400); and passenger motor vehicles ($65,500). All terrain 4-wheel vehicles go up to $42,273 in the military databases.
Breakdown on US Aircraft to Afghanistan.
Same UK source…
More…
So, the Biden Cabal shows Benghazi-Hillary how it’s really done.
I demand Equity!
I want my own taxpayer funded Super Tucano!
And a nice M249 SAW with 10,000 rounds!
Equity Now! Fourteenth Amendment and all that!
Twenty years ago it took 100 close air supported U.S. Special Forces troops to put the Taliban on a race to the borders. It would be a lot harder now.
So what he's saying that Biden should have taken all that equipment given to the Afghan military back from them and destroy it before we left? And that would have prevented the Taliban from taking over how exactly?
By that point it was clearly evident that the Afghan military was literally throwing down their weapons and running scared from the Taliban.
We should have grenaded every vehicle and aircraft before leaving .........................
Taliban are mostly Pashtun, and the Pashtuns (most especially the orthodox muslim types) have cousin-marriage rates similar to the worst parts of Pakistan.
Their collective IQ has got to be in the low 80s. I’d like to see them try to maintain and fly a helicopter.
The U.S. withdrawal ended about the first of July. I don't remember any reports of the Afghan army folding before then.
They should have known, even then........................
That night vision stuff alone bites this country immensely. Our forces own the night but this surrender has put the enemy on equal ground. The only good news is they lack the technical background to maintain all this stuff. The Chinese will help help them with that but I have little doubt these savages will turn on China eventually.
He wants to disarm Americans, but arm the taliban
I wish I could get my hands on a few of those AR’s and bullets to go with them. For varmints and such…
I would think this was incompetence, but this is how ISIS became the best equipped army in the middle east.
They would only need a few brain cells to sell those items to another country....
I wonder if I can get a steal of a deal on a Pilatus PC-12 in the near future?
Hate to say this, but we should BOMB THE HE11 out of all that 85 billion in weapons, etc.
I would be better than having the terrorists use it.
The American people are tired of our failed leaders and their empire games. The Uniparty view our blood as their currency and they spend it liberally for their own gain.
> I’d like to see them try to maintain and fly a helicopter. <
I’m guessing we trained quite a few Afghani Army guys to do just that. And now the Taliban will make them an offer they can’t refuse.
Good Gawd!
Why can’t I get just one old nam era HUEY?
Awww.... I want a grenade launcher... We never get the good toys.
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