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| The story of abandoned weapons and equipment in Afghanistan |
| 2023-10-08 |
| [ExpressTribune] Nearly $7.2 billion worth of aircraft, guns, vehicles, ammunition and specialised equipment remained in Afghanistan We continue to explore the collapse of Afghan National Defence and Security Forces (ANDSF) in August 2021, as chronicled in February 2023 report by SIGAR (Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction), a US government entity. Since 2002, the US-supplied equipment worth approximately $18.6 billion to ANDSF including around 300 fixed-wing and rotary-wing aircraft; over 80,000 vehicles of several types; nearly 600,000 weapons (all calibers); communications equipment, night vision goggles and biometric systems. In over two years alone (2018 to collapse in 2021), ANDSF received 84 aircraft, 6,551 vehicles, 18,956 weapons and 299 night-vision devices. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #4 Thing is, every single item left behind, except for consumables (bullets, etc) require maintenance. In a year it'll be garbage. |
| Posted by: ed in texas 2023-10-08 15:49 |
| #3 Joe screwed over all the exporters of used Japanese trucks and SUVs. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2023-10-08 11:39 |
| #2 I heard of more than one dude in the 173rd that got article 15'd over him trying to 'personalize' his night vision gear on the return from AFG. If they'd just waited long enough... |
| Posted by: ed in texas 2023-10-08 10:42 |
| #1 the equipment data inventory system (CoreIMS) server crashed (or was made to crash) in early 2021 Administered by 'naturalized' Paki IT personnel? How does one crash a cloud? |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2023-10-08 01:27 |