Taliban fighters have ditched their traditional garb for American-style military gear left behind.------ Twitter
Posted on 08/26/2021 6:39:20 AM PDT by Red Badger
A video has emerged that appears to show Taliban fighters taking a Black Hawk helicopter on a joyride at an Afghan airport — the latest example of how the insurgents are flaunting their newly acquired military gear and rubbing it in America’s face.
The former Afghan air force UH-60 Black Hawk is seen taxiing at an airport in Afghanistan, according to the Independent. However, it does not appear to leave the ground in the footage.
Russian television network RT and tech and motoring outlet The Drive identified the airfield as Kandahar Airport in southeastern Afghanistan.
Joseph Dempsey, a research associate for defense and military analysis at London thinktank the International Institute for Strategic Studies, also tweeted the clip and identified the airfield as Kandahar Airport.
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Why wouldn’t they? The world knows they beat America.
Taliban fighters have ditched their traditional garb for American-style military gear left behind.------ Twitter
Taliban fighters have ditched their traditional garb for American military gear left behind
it would be a shame if it remotely detonated.
or flew anyone driving it to a secret base, and then flew back (for another load)
First off that is an Afghan UH-Sissy. It is the A model and painted in the Afghan scheme. The public is being punked on this one.
Muslims/Arabs don't/can't maintain (any of their) equipment - it's mainly ex-pats (American and Brits).
They might be able to get/keep the Humvees running, that's about it.
It is sickening seeing them in our uniforms!
Lets make a Deal Joey, gave away 85 Billion dollars in weapons.
I want to know who is at the controls. Would that be a US trained Afghani?
So much for the lie yesterday that the Taliban doesn’t have the ability to use all the weapons Biden just handed them free of charge. Joe Biden actually wished Americans trapped in Afghanistan ‘good luck’ but others are more proactive. I saw an article on that, ‘Screw Biden: CIA and US Troops Are Conducting Rescue Operations to Evacuate Stranded Americans’, and you can give that a look at Townhall. It’s like the conversation Miles and Joel had in ‘Risky Business’ (1983)...sometimes you just have to say WTF. Biden’s next lie will have to be a whopper to top this one.
The MSM said they didn’t have the ability to use the weapons we left. Clearly untrue. And even if it had been, their new buddies China and Russia did and would have for a price.
US is going back there boots on the ground only this time we are up against our own sophisticated weapons the fools in charge left behind vs tribesmen with unsophisticated weapons.
I used to watch young Lt.s train in basic helo, it ain't easy.
I would not bet against it.
Typically humping goats in caves doesn’t qualify one to operate a helicopter.
I heard there was a plan to take out the big items (airstrikes), but I doubt it more every day. Biden WANTED them to have that stuff, just as Obama armed ISIS.
Yep. They will only be able to keep the simplest equipment running. If it requires a computer to fix (as do many new diesel engines), it is junk as soon as it breaks down.
BREAKING: Reports of a large explosion and gunfire at the Abbey gate of the Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul #Afghanistan.
“The MSM said they didn’t have the ability to use the weapons we left. “
Clearly propaganda meant to make the dumb masses feel ok with O’Biden’s treachery. The Taliban may be brutal, they may be evil, but they are not stupid.
Well.. the winner gets the spoils of war... unfortunately, we came in second place this time around.
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