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Yep, he's effectively managed to get out and save both people and animals and yet for some reason that some animals were on board is enough to tear into him, no matter the number of near empty flights and holds going out. Shows how even when there's one nugget decency in a ****storm the UK media will never fail to crush it.
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Originally posted by Cassius_Smoke View PostTalking about Afghanistan, have you seen the arsenal of **** they've obtained from the retreating forces?
They have fighter jets, tanks, APCs, rockets, a **** tonne of assault rifles and more.
The US left a huge amount of materiel; I read for example there were 6 THOUSAND trucks.
However, further reading suggests that when they're pulling out, the military perform a long process where they evaluate all their equipment; they take back everything particularly useful/valuable and only leave whatever, well, isn't. So while they left tons of humvees, many of them aren't running or at the end of their service life. Apparently that sort of equipment requires daily, highly skilled maintenance.
They left assault riles and such, but no ammunition, and apparently Afghanistan already has more assault rifles than people, mainly left over from the Soviets.
They left fighter planes and helicopters, but stripped them down, and without their FCS and computer systems they're basically just expensive scrap.
Supposedly the vast bulk isn't running now, and what is/what can be repaired won't be running in 6 months' time.
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Those black hawk choppers need maintenance every 30 hours, and I doubt they have the skills to do that. Another point of view is that a lot of the equipment was given or sold to Afghanistan. Not the outgoing government, the country. The taliban are the government there now so they’re in charge and the equipment is rightly theirs. Silly merca!
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Originally posted by Brad View PostThose black hawk choppers need maintenance every 30 hours, and I doubt they have the skills to do that. Another point of view is that a lot of the equipment was given or sold to Afghanistan. Not the outgoing government, the country. The taliban are the government there now so they’re in charge and the equipment is rightly theirs. Silly merca!
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Yep, they won't be able to use them for long. And if they sit doing nothing that's just as bad for them. I'm sure lots of us here would love a pinball table but if you get one of those you'd better learn how to maintain it! BlackHawks are to choppers as The Twilight Zone machine is to pinball tables.
EDIT: I guess the hardware *was* provided to the outgoing government but this is what happens when then enemy cares more about their cause than the incumbents do about theirs.
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Well, according to The Sun, the 9/11 terrorists learned to fly using Microsoft Flight Simulator, so if the Americans have left behind a powerful enough PC to run it, we could be in trouble.
Or like most PC gamers, they could just spend ages tweaking the graphics filters, rather than actually playing it.
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