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@raymondquinton5960 @45 of the best and obviously flyable aircraft were taken to Uzbekistan and Tajikistan by their Afghan pilots, many were actually already destroyed in the fighting and considering a good number of the 200 were already in differing levels of dis-repair by their own admission exactly how many aircraft do you think the Taliban have operational? So far I have seen 1 blackhawk? Hardly what I would call an Air force and tbh I give even that 3-6 months before it is grounded without proper and on going maintenance.
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That's what all countries do when the host nation has turned to shit, shut their embassies and evacuate their people. Don't feel special, happens in shitholes all around the world, no one is coming back to save you this time.
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Evacuate their embassy staff, no huge secret champ. Did you really think.600 troops were returning to re-take the country??
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The Afghani army outnumbered the Taliban, had the training and the equipment and still gave in to the taliban, literally, and people still try and blame America? Are you actually serious right now!
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@Alikhan-wh4yg but they didn't, their goal was to root out al Qaeda and topple the taliban government, they did that a long time ago. Anything after that was just nation building and helping the new Afghan govt and military establish itself, and everyone knew that was not going to go on forever so is literally upto Afghanistan now and pretty much has been for the past decade or so.
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The Afghan army helped Taliban take Afghanistan.
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Perhaps they could hide away for 20 years as well?
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Sachchidanand Singh your cap locks is on.
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@raymondquinton5960 soooo, you don't know? Got it.
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@raymondquinton5960 oh your close friend? ahh classic, well then like I said how many do you think they have, remember, the original question? The numbers I quoted are public knowledge, no secret friends here just a little thing called the internet for all to see but hey, why would I have any reason to doubt your close friend right?
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And Afghanistan got nothing, because they are useless and can't do anything for themselves, probably expect some other country to give them medals and then blame them when they can't look after them...sound about right?
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@gunwright3481 "them" being flown? So far I have seen 1 blackhawk that they have been using for joyrides and abit of PR flag waving, what are these others you speak of?
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@ggurwlcom420 exactly, hilarious, I was thinking more Fred Flinstone meets the Muppets in tropic thunder but in black and white, but that'll do as well.
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Like Taliban did to Pakistan?
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Ahmed Hussain haha defeated? They literally just hid in a cave for 20 years and waited for the Americans to get bored and go home and now they are all of a sudden brave again! Stop fanboying champ. Don't worry, the US is still laughing all the way to the bank and probably will be for the next 20 years as well
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@Strawbberrypiee haha you really believing the hype huh? you are literally just quoting the total figures for the entire ANA and Afghan air force PRIOR to the Taliban takeover and before US support ceased when it is already well known most of the air force is either disabled or in Uzbekistan so why do you keep insisting Taliban have 200 aircraft?? They have at least 70 wrecks at Kabul airport alone and so far I have seen 1 flying blackhawk doing the rounds and good luck keeping that maintenance hog in the air, I give it 6 months then they will probably have to switch over to those fighter jets you keep mentioning, which is strange considering the Afghan air force did not have any as of the takeover/rollover other than the turboprop tucanos and a couple of decorative l39 jet trainers which are hardly jet fighters by any stretch of the imagination. To put it into perspective even their neighbours would hardly be concerned if they did get them flying never mind anyone else.
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They won't, from the equipment left at Kabul international airport. You do not seriously think the 3000 US soldiers sent back into Kabul airport were just gonna pop around the military bases, outposts and checkpoints of Afghanistan (the country) and a put a round into the engine block of 8500 humvees and remove the firing pins from all 110,000 M16s and M4s of the ANA, ANP and NDS in a week??? Somehow I think they had other things to do that week...
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@patriotenfield3276 Haha what?? They don't have JLTVs! I bet you and the guy who keeps spouting Taliban have warehouses full of strykers and M1 Abrams have the same "close friend" who knows as much right??
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Yea because they do not want to poke the tiger again and go back into hiding for another 20 years.
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@yu-jd5jg oh yea of course, every army has its ill-disciplined dipshits within it's ranks, I actually expect the Taliban has more than it's fair share tbh but the Taliban hierarchy definately does not want to re-awaken the tiger this close to victory.
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@kkklover89 haha many oppose most wars America are involved with, that doesn't mean they will just sit back and watch anything happen to evacuating Americans, if I was to.give Americans anything it is that they are a fiercely patriotic nation. They will level Kabul and still be home for dinner and Taliban will need a new palace from day 1. And just in case they thought it was mistake the Americans will level the next one as well just so they know they have been understood.
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Because they were not US equipment they were ANA equipment. The US didn't lend the Afghan military all its equipment to use just until they left.
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They've already given Mexico blackhawk helicopters, be careful, all the experts on here will start asking why the US left so much equipment in Mexico as they do not quite understand the concept...
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And an AK-47 is made in Russia, so what?
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@ggurwlcom420 what movies are you watching champ? If they were going to make a movie about this then it would probably be a comedy anyway, because Afghanistan is a joke.
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@arjunpandav7077 funny how everyone predicted this was going to happen, now. Pretty convenient really.
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Advanced?? compared to what exactly? who even??
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@pz2818 so you suggest they just take all the ANAs weapons and vehicles (notice I said ANAs weapons and vehicles?) off them on essentially a hunch and leave them defenceless? And fight with what? Bow and arrows??
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Joy chowdury why would there have been artillery at Kabul international airport?
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@pz2818 Haha sure thing champ sure thing...my country??
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So what exactly are they going to do? Drive around the planet in humvees wreaking havoc with their M16s, helmets and matching uniforms?? Dam, watch out world, here come the Taliban!!
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@Vysair had, before the US destroyed it, now they have scrap.
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Just like they helped with spare parts for all their Russian gear? Just whip some up at the spare parts factory right?? Easy peasy???
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Just wait for next year's parade, they will be back in their trusty hiluxs because all the humvees would have broken down and the blackhawk would have crashed into a mountain.
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@John Hero haha you literally just quoted what the Afghan military had BEFORE the Taliban take over not what they have left. Have you ever wondered why you only ever see 1 blackhawk flying around, this entire time, 1 blackhawk...You are literally dreaming if you think they have all of that. They do have a lot of wrecked aircraft that's for sure.
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@Dhksksjjsjjs are they hiding the rest? So where are they then? All footage is of a single blackhawk, so where is the footage of the other 200 aircraft? Taliban being modest huh
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@John Hero Haha when was the last time you "fixed" a C-RAM out of interest?
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@lumapas but the Phillipines have more blackhawks and mi-17s that actually work and are flyable, bit of a difference...
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@John Hero haha are you serious? You may actually want to look up the indonesian military before making such a wild claim!
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@walterdayrit675 Haha the Taliban have better equipment than the Phillipines?? What Phillipines are you looking at?
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@Dhksksjjsjjs that wasn't the question champ, they video everything else, literally, so again, where are all these working blackhawks? You don't need a pilot to make a video of blackhawks sitting on the tarmac, in the hanger or even sitting in a field? I have seen lots of footage of wrecked blackhawks sitting on the tarmac and destroyed blackhawks sitting in hangers though...
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@walterdayrit675 where's the modern stuff? This is just some foreign news agency quoting what wikipedia said they had BEFORE the Taliban takeover, not during or after. 85 billion "worth" of junk is still junk, you just have 85 billion worth...
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@Dhksksjjsjjs because they are showing the world they have "all these", literally putting on parades to show "all these", so again where are "all these" blackhawks you seem to know all about? Haha not my Biden govt champ, I'm not even American, yet another thing you are just guessing huh?
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@Dhksksjjsjjs oh was weeks, now months, all within 2 minutes, it's getting longer and longer, should be upto years by the next post? you are just making this shit up as you go champ, literally. And I hope no one outside the US is dumb enough to believe your made up BS!
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@John Hero a simple Google search alone shows Indonesia has a bigger and better equipped and trained military than Afghanistsan, even the old fully equipped Afghanistan military. You guys are really talking up the Taliban since they came out of the stone age and stepped into the 90s but don't get carried away!
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@walterdayrit675 such as?
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@walterdayrit675 yea upgrade for the Taliban, but that was not hard. That is just standard in any regular military, even the poorer ones. The US kitted the ANA and air force relatively basically on purpose, and for very good reasons, exactly what has happened being the main one. This is all basic kit, even the blackhawks were UH-60As, the very first model from the 80s. Whilst they have a lot of kit it's all outdated and literally the only good it is for is themselves, against each other, if they can keep what they have left going that is.
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Not attempting very hard?
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The surrounding what?
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That's just normal humvees...
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At Kabul international airport where the US forces were not in Afghanistan, the entire country...how do people not understand this concept?? The ANA had 8500 humvees and crazy as it sounds they didn't just base them in Kabul...
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Because the ANA was a paper army and blew over in the wind that's why.
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@shafiwuincorporated7289 what's working???
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@Alikhan-wh4yg my what?? Afghanistan, Pakistan, in Wadis, in caves, in compounds, in schools, in villagers houses, in riverbeds, in hospitals, should I go on? Why TF would I give them anything other than a bullet?
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Won what?
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Why would anyone think the afghani army would crumble so easily after 20 years?
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Best equipped?? Haha If it was 1980 maybe!! But it's not...
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Ahmed Hussain you cannot eliminate an ideal champ, you just keep pounding it into submission, but then even that gets tiresome. Everyone has given up on Afghanistan, even Afghanistan, just shut the doors and forget about it, they'll be doing the same shit for the next 20 years just like the last 20 years and the 20 years before that....same shit different century, yawn.
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Because they weren't their helicopters, humvees and guns. They were the ANAs. Simple really.
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Shutting down their embassies, happens in every shitbox country, look through history.
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This was all ANA equipment not US, and was all over Afganistan not just in Kabul. Strange but they Afghans had more than 1 base in the country.
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@ankitsen1998 you cannot teach discipline, pride and self-respect. It is not Americas country to fight for, apparently it is not Afghanistans country to fight for either as they are all packing up and leaving as well...
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They explode just as easily, easier actually, makes for a better target.
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@ggurwlcom420 wanted is abit of a stretch, put up with is more likely. Afghanis are just like their army, give up easily and take the easy route depending on who is winning on the day and who has the most guns. Don't try and act all patriotic now.
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@ggurwlcom420 funny thing is those countries are still superpowers and Afghanistan is still a wartorn dump fighting itself into dust, what a winner! Carry on Afghanistan, you got this.
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@ggurwlcom420 and yet they have all still moved forward, prospered, modernised and are international players on the world stage effectively global leaders. Afghanistan is still a slum and it is now 2021. What's your point?
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@ggurwlcom420 free? Well guess we will all just wait and see what "freedom" looks like.
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@PlanetaryCitizen actually no, they have some wrecks to add to their junkpiles though but to be fair the Afghan air force was pretty modest to begin with as the US did all their heavy hitting.
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@PlanetaryCitizen yea, like I said wrecks, what wasn't destroyed was disabled and what wasn't disabled was not working anyway and even if they did get a hold of any who would fly them anyway?? Flying a helicopter is a little more involved than driving a humvee...
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@vsumi3249 to do what? Fly wrecked helicopters? Where? On sightseeing tours?? You guys are really overestimating this "sophisticated" idea, you may want to try looking up what the ANA, ANP and afghan air force actually had when the Americans left, by the sounds of it you may actually be surprised. The equipment they had may have been sophisticated, in the 80s, but now even new they care obsolete. Humvees and even a few refurbished blackhawks are not exactly cutting edge weapons, not even weapons if we are being exact.
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@igorvasilyev1719 exactly, this is why the afghan air force were transitioning to the blackhawks in the first place as the mi8s were becoming increasingly difficult to maintain and source parts for so now the blackhawk (singular...) will face the same problems. The Taliban air force is not actually getting off to a flying start all things considered.
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@raymondquinton5960 these are the people on the ground saying it, they are the US forces on the ground who disabled them, ex Afghan forces who took the aircraft, reporters on the ground reporting it or are you saying these people are lying and these pictures, video and personal accounts are doctored? Would be a big claim champ. Not only is the internet great but also provides actual realtime footage, that you can see, with your eyes, on the internet....as opposed to you making claims on the internet in the chat that is
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@raymondquinton5960 obviously? Why is that exactly?? remember I asked you the question and you still have not answered. I'm looking at actual footage and you're saying, your "close friend" told you...but yea I'm the one making up stuff. And nope, I didn't think there were no US citizens stranded in Afghanistan, I know there is, ironically because of all these internet sources you claim to be false. In fact this is the first time I have ever heard that, from you, so this is awkward as no one else I follow has even remotely said anything like that? I like how you are trying to tell me what media I follow though, you've already failed.
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What shit?
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Some of it? All of it was! Which of this equipment are US? Even that blackhawk is an old Afghan air force helicopter.
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@therealhound3977 what weapons? A few artillery pieces that probably have no firing pins anyway? Haha America and NATO did not leave any "modern" weapons behind and any weapons they did were the ANAs but I would hardly call them modern, conventional yes but modern, hardly.
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They know not to attack the Americans or Brits again, ironically they are probably safer now then they ever were in the past 20 years.
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@jibraani10 Haha "maintaining" an AK-47 is a little bit different to a humvee and that blackhawk they have but I love your optimism!
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Taliban?
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You didn't, the ANA did.
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Do you seriously think there were 8500 humvees in the carpark at Kabul international airport?
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@hindugoat2302 what about the 3rd group that flew to Uzbekistan? And the 4th group destroyed in the week of "fighting"? And the 5th group disabled by the semi competent Afghanis when they realised it was all going south? And the 6th group that wasn't even flyable in the first place?
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@empnadajhhh9469 what do think China wants old blackhawks or humvees for exactly? For some Chinese Schwarzenegger movie props?? They already have their own versions of each and have done for years, they don't need this junk unless for some nostalgic target practice.
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@Strawbberrypiee haha what battle was that? What country never mind countries are they going to "take over"?? Tonga? Drive there in their humvees wearing their vests ya reckon? Takes abit more than night vision goggles to win a war against another country, especially considering almost every other army already has that gear, and more, and knows how to use it. You been watching too many movies champ, you seriously need to stop fan boying the Taliban just because they have finally caught up to a basic army, just. All the gear they have now is already old, it's only modern for the Taliban, it's basic kit for everyone else. Haha good laugh though!
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@Strawbberrypiee bahahaha, they didn't "take" Afghanistan, they literally waited until the US left and the Afghan army rolled over a played dead. They just showed up and put some uniforms on they found in a warehouse and now you think they can take on the world because they finally have helmets?? Are you actually serious? This is too good!!
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@Strawbberrypiee that's what happens when you hide away, no one finds you. The US got bored and left, waste of time, waste of money, waste of effort. You seriously didn't they were staying forever did you?? Afghanistan is Afghanistans problem now, already falling apart, should turn back into dust anytime now. Lucky they got night vision goggles though right? gonna be real handy in a collapsing economy, be able to see people hungry at night as well!
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@Strawbberrypiee So why you think they signed the deal champ? For fun??
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@gunwright3481 they have strykers and Abrams? Ahh what??? Feel free to put the links up. That flying C130 would be good as well
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@hindugoat2302 I have hundreds of dollars worth of socks in my sock drawer from over 5 years ago as well, I left them on the side of the road in a rubbish bag to make space for my new socks and a homeless guy took them. This homeless guy has hundreds of dollars worth of socks apparently....good for him huh? The US literally gives away crap like this every year to countries all over the planet, it benefits them just as much as the people they give them so they can then get more new improved and up to date crap. Haha If the Taliban really played their cards right they may even give them some more humvees considering they've already got the replacement JLTVs now ironically because Afghanistan showed just how vulnerable humvees are in a modern battlefield, even against low tech adversaries....fleets of anything you own cost a lot of money to keep wether you use them or not.
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@hindugoat2302 so you understand the Taliban "beat" the US helicopters, airplanes and "APCs" with ak47s in Toyota hiluxs yet cannot grasp the local insurgents can do the same with their ak47s and Toyota hiluxs to topple the taliban and their helicopter (singular), airplane (what airplane is that?) and "APCs"?? Pretty convenient argument huh? Yes the A10 is one of the top assets on the battlefield, which is probably why the Taliban do not have any along with any U2 spy planes sooo...weird comparison either way.
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@gunwright3481 oh so now you are saying there are warehouses full of strykers and Abrams because "some lady" said it on Facebook, that's generally what people who have no clue say. When someone says to "look it up" yourself that's the big giveaway it's BS and then makes me wonder what else they are plucking out of thin air?? I heard they are flying aircraft that was "left" at Bagram as well because "some guy" said it on YouTube...see how this works? Why would the US leave aircraft at Bagram? For the cleaners?
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@dclprogramming really? You find it hard to believe they could evacuate 278 people an hour from an international airport? Considering a single C-17 lifted off with over 800 people alone and that C-17s were flying in and out constantly (not 1 an hour either) It's really not that hard to believe at all. They were only flying out to nearby staging countries where airliners flew them onto other countries and then flew back in, they were not refuelling in Kabul as they didn't need too, literally just land, load up and leave. Our aircraft that flew in only spent 30mins on the ground before leaving and there were multiple aircraft on the tarmac at any one time. Kabul was the main international airport for the entire country so it can handle a lot of aircraft at once, definately more than 1 747 an hour haha (not that any 747s flew in anyway).
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@empnadajhhh9469 but apparently you do right? It is literally an armoured truck not an F-35, there is nothing ground breaking or earth shattering about the MRAPs left in Afghanistan champ so calm down with the tech theories. You honestly think China does not have armoured vehicles??? There is a good reason the US left all these humvees, MRAPs even aircraft in Afghanistan for the Afghans, they are literally low tech death traps that even the US is currently moving away from, ironically from lessons learnt in places like Afghanistan. If you think China even cares about humvees, M4 rifles, blackhawks or even MRAPs you are either underestimating Chinas technology or overestimating Afghanistans.
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@anonymoususer4193 "just popped the tires"....is that what the US forces or the Taliban at the airport said? We/They just popped the tires?? So Taliban was so 'disappointed and angry' about Kabul international because they "popped the tires"?? Are you serious champ?
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@sam-h6f showing blackhawk being flown not blackhawks, as in a blackhawk, 1 blackhawk, singular...no need to get excited. A logging company in my country has 2 blackhawks, we're not overly worried about them either...
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Do you not think 20 years was long enough? What do you reckon? 30 years? 50 years?? 100 years??? Can't stay there forever champ, in fact Afghanistan wanted them to leave, can't have it both ways now it's not quite working out right.
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