Posted on 06/01/2023 7:44:46 PM PDT by dennisw
Social media shows the Taliban sending U.S. military vehicles captured from the former Afghan National Defense and Security Forces along with some ancient Soviet-era tanks to Afghanistan’s border with Iran following a recent skirmish about access to the Helmand River.
On May 27, fighting broke out in Nimroz province in southern Afghanistan between the Taliban and Iranian border guards. At least three people were killed in the exchanges of fire.
Should hostilities increase between the two sides, Taliban fighters will have thousands of vehicles at their disposal that were paid for by American taxpayers.
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A May 27 video of fighting near an Iranian border outpost was taken by a Taliban fighter from inside the turret of an M240 machine gun mounted on a Humvee. More recent videos posted to Twitter purportedly show Taliban convoys of American-made Humvees and M117 Armored Security Vehicles enroute to Afghanistan’s Iranian border.
In addition to M117s and Humvees, the Taliban also uses American-made MaxxPro Mine-Resistant Ambush Protected Vehicles and M113 armored personnel carriers, said Vishal Sengupta, a research analyst at Janes, a defense intelligence firm.
It is difficult to determine how many of the U.S.-made military vehicles that the Taliban captured are still operational, Sengupta told Task & Purpose. Open sources indicate that the Taliban keeps its fleet of vehicles running by cannibalizing parts from other vehicles.
Taliban official told reporters in February 2022 that Taliban fighters had captured roughly 61,000 military vehicles and 26,000 heavy weapons in the final days of the Afghanistan war, according to Al Jazeera.
The Defense Department has estimated that the former Afghan government had about $7.1 billion in military equipment provided by the United States when the Taliban took over the country.
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I wonder if part of this, has to do with water rights
Intersting. I learned about this thanks to your post.
SO... if the Afghans use American equipment to attack Iran, at least those weapons would come to good use.
By the way... they said they “captured” that American equipment. That sounds too heroic. That equipment was simply abandoned...
Looks like the Sunni Pashtuns no like-y the Shiite Iranians. This could be fun. Yet more grist for the Apocalypse mill.
Let the fighting begin. A good use of American taxpayers money.
Golly - someone made one for this specific traitorous act.
LOL!! That sums it all up!! Hadn’t seen that one before.
Yeah, not sure what to think about this. Pass the popcorn time.
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Afghanistan, and it’s neighborhood conflicts, are not American problems.
However, if they go to war against Iran, and they need spares for equipment, there will be somebody here willing to sell parts.
Hell yes, Let them fight it out. They are both enemies.
The question rises......... who is fundamentally most correct?
We may be having a Baptist like Islamic fundamentalist feud that will get people killed rather than just go off in a huff and start a new church
Discredited bs mistranslated Mexican news.
ITS AN INERT TRAINING DEVICE
NOTE THE PLAIN YELLOW BAND.
https://youtube.com/shorts/kQoMZM1dBI4?feature=share
Who to root for?
I believe the Deep State was and is on their side. No other explanation for BiteMes Afghanistan withdrawal.
Without spare parts and regular maintenance, these vehicles will be carcases in short order.
ITS AN INERT TRAINING DEVICE
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You are absolutely DEAD WRONG- the yellow band denotes HE, the training AT4 tube has a blue band. I know from EXPERIENCE, Blue in Ordnance denotes “ Training”, Yellow HE ( loaded with energetic material).
Where do people like you come from? You will get someone killed if handling Ordnance.
Speaking of DEAD WRONG, Read the manual.
Color-Coding. M136 AT4 launchers are marked with color-coded bands (Figure 3-5). A black with yellow band indicates an HE antiarmor round (early models had a solid black band). A gold or yellow band indicates a field handling trainer; no band indicates an M287 9-mm tracer bullet trainer
https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/policy/army/fm/23-25/FM232_4.htm
lol...What’s up w Delta 7 talking through his hat?
Check again, the color coding you sight is current color coding. Older are color coded “yellow band for HE, TM 3-23.25 15 September 2010.”
It is highly unlikely we gave the Ukies newer manufactured stock, they are getting our older stocks, and NATO stocks.
https://armypubs.army.mil/epubs/DR_pubs/DR_a/pdf/web/tm3_23x25.pdf
Fact is it matters not when they will be used against us on our soil.
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