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Who is doing the “airlift” from Kabul?
Me | 8/30/21 | Me

Posted on 08/30/2021 7:49:04 AM PDT by the OlLine Rebel

Minor but nagging question:

WHO, what nations, are doing airlifts? How much?

I saw a brief clip of a plane on FOX clearly with German insignia.

I’m sure everyone is still trying to get their respective people out, but any idea on the magnitude of each?


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KEYWORDS: afghanistan; airlift; kabul; military
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Just wondering.

And it makes me wonder if Euro allies are making more effort than Biden admin.

1 posted on 08/30/2021 7:49:04 AM PDT by the OlLine Rebel
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To: the OlLine Rebel
I’m sure everyone is still trying to get their respective people out

I think a bunch of countries still are.

But I think we gave up. It's too hard for us.

2 posted on 08/30/2021 7:51:55 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (China is like the Third Reich. We are like Mussolini's Italy. Weaker, a Jr partner good losing wars.)
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To: the OlLine Rebel

Been checking the FlightRadar app every so often and the bulk of the C-17’s (with a radar ID at least) are ours. Some from UK and every so often Qatar.


3 posted on 08/30/2021 7:53:22 AM PDT by jughandle (Big words anger me, keep talking. )
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To: the OlLine Rebel

Those Geman planes are Airbus Atlases. They look like a propeller driven knock off of a C-17.


4 posted on 08/30/2021 7:54:47 AM PDT by HighSierra5 (The only way you know a commie is lying is when they open their pieholes.)
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To: the OlLine Rebel

Headline at MarketWatch right now: White House says US retains capacity to evacuate remaining Americans in Afghanistan.


5 posted on 08/30/2021 7:56:54 AM PDT by SaxxonWoods ( comment might be sarcasm, or not. It depends. Often I'm not sure either.)
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The capacity to pay large ransoms.


6 posted on 08/30/2021 7:58:47 AM PDT by aynrandfreak (Being a Democrat means never having to say you're sorry)
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To: the OlLine Rebel

Keystone Cops are in charge per Dementia Joe.


7 posted on 08/30/2021 8:00:49 AM PDT by ExTexasRedhead
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To: jughandle

Now watching a C17A heading for Kabul.

Great website.


8 posted on 08/30/2021 8:04:21 AM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (The best things in life aren't things.)
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To: the OlLine Rebel

All news stations use stock video and photo so that could have been from a week ago. Since the debacle started many countries planes have flown in and out.


9 posted on 08/30/2021 8:06:28 AM PDT by \/\/ayne (I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper)
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To: the OlLine Rebel

Currently there are 4 C-17’s inbound to Kabul. Moose92, Moose94, Moose83, & Moose83. Moose92 just made the turn north into Pakistan. There remainder are flying west to east over the Gulf of Oman. There are multiple KC-135 circling over the Gulf of Oman, along the Pakistan/Afghanistan border, and one to the east of Kabul.

About two or so hours ago, there was non-US flight to Qatar. Earlier than that there was non-US flight from Mazar-i-Sharif.

I have not seen any NATO-ally flights this morning.


10 posted on 08/30/2021 8:08:23 AM PDT by ConservativeInPA ("Goats are like mushrooms. Because if you shoot a duck, I'm afraid of toasters." - Joe Biden)
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To: jughandle

Thanks for the info. Surprised you could see this on an open public site.


11 posted on 08/30/2021 8:14:36 AM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
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Yes, you could be right. Of course one has to be concerned it’s file images that have zero to do with Afghan! I just assume it is reasonably within scope.


12 posted on 08/30/2021 8:15:31 AM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
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To: ConservativeInPA

Interesting. Thanks. Just wondering what is happening with other countries and if they are outstripping us. Which wouldn’t surprise me what with DEMentia Joe.


13 posted on 08/30/2021 8:16:37 AM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
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"The capacity to pay large ransoms."

The scum that rule us are selling Americans into debt bondage with funny money flying off the presses. I wonder if sovereign debt needs to be paid back if there is an new government entirely? After all, you only own what you can hold.

14 posted on 08/30/2021 8:17:28 AM PDT by WMarshal (The Pleasant American)
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Who is this one?

https://fr24.com/GLF6/28f67e51

Gulfstream took off from Anchorage, flew through Russia around Mongolia and China and appears to be headed toward Pakistan or Afghanistan


15 posted on 08/30/2021 8:17:33 AM PDT by z3n
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To: the OlLine Rebel

Despite the Biden Administration claiming credit for the 122,000 evacuated, many countries and private organizations provided the airlift assets to evacuate tens of thousands.

We need a breakdown of who was evacuated. Amcits, Green card holders, SIVs, Third Country Nationals, and refugees. We will learn that the vast, vast majority of evacuees are refugees with no connection to the USG.


16 posted on 08/30/2021 8:23:56 AM PDT by kabar
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To: the OlLine Rebel

BTW, there are zero civilians leaving Kabul. It is all military retrograde at this point.


17 posted on 08/30/2021 8:34:54 AM PDT by ConservativeInPA ("Goats are like mushrooms. Because if you shoot a duck, I'm afraid of toasters." - Joe Biden)
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To: z3n

Looks like he is going to Islamabad ... turned south too soon for Kabul.


18 posted on 08/30/2021 8:37:35 AM PDT by ConservativeInPA ("Goats are like mushrooms. Because if you shoot a duck, I'm afraid of toasters." - Joe Biden)
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Yeah when I found him it seemed like he was just steering east around Kazakhstan and might adjust back toward Afghanistan, but you are right. Now it appears to be Islamabad.


19 posted on 08/30/2021 8:39:27 AM PDT by z3n
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To: SaxxonWoods

“retains capacity “

Of course they do. Doesn’t mean anything. It’s gov’t slime speak


20 posted on 08/30/2021 8:40:34 AM PDT by nuconvert ( Warning: Accused of being a radical militarist. Approach with caution.)
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