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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Every day this thing gets worse.
The real question is HOW THE HELL DID THEY GET U.S. EQUIPMENT????
Can’t image the will last long without spare parts. Unless we left that too.
Clowns in Afghanistan.
And I saw what appeared to be giant grasshoppers....
Apocalypse.
There must be a few art curators in Kabul purchasing hunters art relics in order for the talibon to now be well armed.
Probably people we trained who switched sides.
I’m guessing that we taught quite a few Afghani soldiers how to fly (and maintain) those helicopters. Those guys are now under Taliban control. So maybe the Taliban made them an offer they couldn’t refuse.
Join the new Taliban Air Force, or you and your family are all dead.
“The love of money is the root of evil..”
And I saw what appeared to be giant grasshoppers....
Apocalypse.
I conclude that finger-poking joe wanted them to humiliate this country. The last conscious act of his fading mind was to sell out his country. The country that pays his salary. As his mind deteriorates even further he will find it harder to enjoy the reward that awaits him for his betrayal: a LOT of money (disguised as a book deal), a mansion, and an enormous legacy for Jill.
You Tube?
“Who taught them how to fly Black Hawk helicopters?”
Who’s in the co-pilot’s seat?
Wouldn’t surprise me that some of the pilots we trained were either always TallyBahn or saw the light and enlisted.
They are running their own country, and we are not.
Under what scheme is that "getting worse"? Do YOU want to run Afghanistan?
Simple - One of the Afghan Army pilots we trained simply switched sides, or was told: show us how to fly this thing, or we kill you.
We did, of course. The pilots are almost certainly ex-Afghan Air Force pilots.
That’s the good news. For every hour of flight it takes 10 hours of maintenance.
Afghanis are not trained in maintenance of the Blackhawks. They will start crashing from maintenance issues soon enough. Hopefully with the pilot inside.
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