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2021-08-19 Afghanistan

Dozens Of U.S.-Bought Afghan Air Force Aircraft Are Now Orphaned At An Uzbek Airfield

[TheDrive] As the chaos at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Afghanistan's capital Kabul was beginning to unfold after the Taliban entered the city on Sunday, an entirely different kind of exodus was underway from the country's northern regions. Satellite imagery confirms that dozens of fixed-wing aircraft, such as A-29 Super Tucano light attack planes, and helicopters, including UH-60 Black Hawks, from the now-defunct Afghan armed forces, originally supplied by the United States, are sitting at Termez Airport in neighboring Uzbekistan.

An image, taken yesterday, Aug. 16, 2021, of Termez from Planet Labs shows the sudden appearance of at least 22 small fixed-wing planes and 26 helicopters. The resolution of the imagery means we can't say for sure that all of these aircraft came fled from Afghanistan. However, what we can see fits almost perfectly with an official statement from the government of Uzbekistan that 46 aircraft, 22 fixed-wing types and 24 helicopters, coming out of Afghanistan had been "forced" to land.
I'll be looking to see a few Super Tucanos on eBay...

Posted by Anomalous Sources 2021-08-19 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11130 views ] Top

#1 Better there than in Afghanistan or Pakistan.

Posted by M. Murcek 2021-08-19 05:06|| 2021-08-19 05:06|| Front Page Top

#2 The fabulous Douglas A-1 Skyraider

Posted by M. Murcek 2021-08-19 05:10|| 2021-08-19 05:10|| Front Page Top

#3 They belong to the Afghanistan government, which is now the Taliban. I imagine they'll be returned.

Posted by Glenmore 2021-08-19 05:43|| 2021-08-19 05:43|| Front Page Top

#4 Putin to the rescue.

Posted by g(r)omgoru PB 2021-08-19 06:37|| 2021-08-19 06:37|| Front Page Top

#5 The radio's got nothin' but sports and news, ...no Jim Dandy coming to the rescue

Posted by M. Murcek 2021-08-19 06:50|| 2021-08-19 06:50|| Front Page Top

#6 Hopefully their new home will be in the Panjshir Valley. It's the late 1990's all over again, with an even less competent but more compromised and vindictive Clinton (no, not Hillary).

Posted by Shatle Whemp8911 2021-08-19 07:46|| 2021-08-19 07:46|| Front Page Top

#7 Shatie,

are you reffering to Chelsea - she is, per her twitter feed, not a vindictive type

Posted by Lord Garth 2021-08-19 08:41|| 2021-08-19 08:41|| Front Page Top

#8 I was thinking that Joe Biden is now taking the place of the Chinese compromised Clintons.

Posted by Shatle Whemp8911 2021-08-19 10:50|| 2021-08-19 10:50|| Front Page Top

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