Video: Taliban Tries To Fly A Black Hawk Helicopter – It Doesn’t Look Good

Right Journalism ^ | 08.25.2021 | Mark Van der Veen

[MrLucky1966]

In this modern world of electronics, software, and hacking, you would think the US would have the capability in a short period of time to be able to overwrite software used to control our military vehicles and weapons. Lord knows we have the capability of doing that with our voting machines.

Reminds me of a 1984 episode of "Airwolf" where think it was String who got POed at Archangel for him giving weapons to potential enemies and Archangel replied back, "yeah, but we can disable them when we have to" by turning off the software to run them.

[Kazan]

Don’t worry, a Chinese instructor will teach them how to fly one properly.

[silent_jonny]

What doesn’t look good is the Taliban getting the Blackhawk Helicopter to begin with.

And here we are, almost at the 20th anniversary of 9/11. This is beyond belief.

[Magnum44]

Its criminal that we left all this ‘stuff’ there. Billions of our tax dollars.

[beef]

The only thing good about this is that they will kill themselves trying to fly them.

[paltz]

They may not have the knowledge or skill set to fly and repair these vehicles but the Chinese and Russians do and that’s a bigger concern.

[RinaseaofDs]

They aren’t going to fly them. They’re going to sell them. They’ll keep some to see if they can get a Chinese or Russian consultant - or even a treasonous US scumbag - to train them.

[Sirius Lee]

“Where’s the Upinator on this thing?”

[Flaming Conservative]

There are regimes that will provide what they need, IMHO.

[AndyJackson]

they are running a Blackhawk down a taxi way.

How many maintenance hours did they just burn in that taxi?

[Midwesterner53]

M 18s?

[XRdsRev]

I seriously doubt the Russians or Chinese are interested in UH-60A’s which is our oldest version and we don’t even use them anymore. The MH-300’s are not cutting edge either and commercial versions of the same helicopter are available.

[Seruzawa]

No, just the choppers. That’s what the thread is about.

[steve86]

“I’m surprised they knew how to fire up the engines.”

Yeah, that had to be a person somewhat familiar with jet turbine operation. Not necessarily a pilot.

[dowcaet]

I do believe the Taliban’s main benefactors, the Russians and the Chinese, will be more than happy to supply the maintenance and technical help needed.

[Nateman]

A similar issue happened in Iran after Carter lost that country. The Shah had our jets but Iran failed to maintain them.

[brianr10]

Live Stim, Dead Stim.

[MrLucky1966]

Yeah, that had to be a person somewhat familiar with jet turbine operation. Not necessarily a pilot.

Come to think of it, many of them are educated, some educated here maybe. I know they also have lots of stupid grunts too but their leaders and mid levels have much more education. My neighbor (he was a Master Sergeant) was in charge of the repair shop for the A-7 when they were based at Pittsburgh for the PA Air National Guard. He knew how to fix them, fire them up and taxi the planes and even learned from the pilots to take off and even fly.

My BFF's father was a chopper mechanic, maintained Cobra Gunships in Vietnam but he was also part of a program where enlisted personnel (he was also a Master Sergeant) can become pilots and he also flew combat missions. The Army was so desperate then where they needed a lot of butts in the pilot's seats.

[xp38]

We’ve got a new maintenance contract. One small catch it’s in.... Yeah I suppose there are a few insane who would go there now given the current insanity level of this world.

[princess leah]

The taliban would most likely threaten to kill a specific group of people unless we helped supply the necessary intelligence to fly these weapons.