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re: Pentagon Claims That Aircraft Was Disabled In Kabul: They will never fly again…
Posted on 8/31/21 at 9:45 am to sugar71
Posted on 8/31/21 at 9:45 am to sugar71
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"If they only had guns"-Conservatives
Only if the Afghans had chose to use them.
50k Afghan soldiers gave their lives since 2014. Don't let facts ruin a perfectly idiotic narrative though.
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Posted on 8/31/21 at 9:46 am to Mr. Misanthrope
Why would it be acceptable to basically junk $1 million aircraft. I don’t get it
Posted on 8/31/21 at 9:47 am to Toomer Deplorable
They will fly as soon as the Pentagon offers its contractors the chance to fix the machinery.
Posted on 8/31/21 at 9:49 am to sugar71
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. "If they only had guns"-Conservatives
Another retarded take from the local fairy.
Posted on 8/31/21 at 9:50 am to TideCPA
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The helicopter video is from Kandahar. The military's reference was to Kabul. This isn't the dunk you think it is.
No it isn't because this administration's Department of Propaganda is very careful on how they word statements.
All aircraft at Kabul airport were destroyed. Ignore all the other aircraft, munitions, and weaponry left perfectly usable around the country including right down the road at Bagram. We succeeded because we destroyed what we left at the end of the complete and Utter disaster of an exit.
Yay us!
Posted on 8/31/21 at 9:52 am to Ag Zwin
Correct! Pilots had to bug out anyway. Why not fly the aircraft out with them?
Posted on 8/31/21 at 9:54 am to TideCPA
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The helicopter video is from Kandahar. The military's reference was to Kabul. This isn't the dunk you think it is.
Oh, in that case all is fine. Who cares that we left all of these non-operable vehicles that the Taliban will sell to China and Russia that they will reverse engineer and now have our technology.
Posted on 8/31/21 at 10:08 am to crazy4lsu
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They will fly as soon as the Pentagon offers its contractors the chance to fix the machinery.
Posted on 8/31/21 at 11:30 am to Toomer Deplorable
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Oh — OK. The Taliban flying a fully functional Blackhawk helicopter gifted to them by our wholly corrupted national security apparatus is hunky-dory since it didn’t happen in Kabul.
How awesome would it have been to remotely detonate that helicopter flying around with the guy hanging off of it the moment it got airborne and was rubbing that shite in our face...
Posted on 8/31/21 at 11:32 am to Toomer Deplorable
What would have been easier is to fly them out
Posted on 8/31/21 at 11:33 am to TideCPA
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The helicopter video is from Kandahar. The military's reference was to Kabul. This isn't the dunk you think it is.
I didn’t know the Taliban isn’t allowed to fly to anywhere outside of Kabul
Posted on 8/31/21 at 11:35 am to TideCPA
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The helicopter video is from Kandahar. The military's reference was to Kabul. This isn't the dunk you think it is.
This isn't the counter-dunk you think it is.
Posted on 8/31/21 at 11:53 am to Toomer Deplorable
quote:I mean, I'm not defending leaving billions of dollars of equipment, vehicles, and munitions to the same people we've been fighting for 20 years. I'm simply saying it can be true that all of the vehicles at the Kabul airport were disabled, while the Taliban simultaneously joyrides around in the rest of the vehicles we left scattered around the country.
This isn’t the dunk you think it is.
It was obvious to any honest person from the get-go that the puppet regime in Afghanistan was wholly corrupted and incompetent.
Of course, being honest excludes anyone remotely associated with our wholly corrupted national security apparatus.
Posted on 8/31/21 at 12:02 pm to Ag Zwin
Equipment got left in WW2.
Equipment got left in Korea & Vietnam.
Equipment got left in every fricking warzone.
Do you have any idea how expensive it would be to get all of this equipment back into the country? There are only so many planes and boats. Also the ANA collapsed in about 3 to 5 days so I don’t know how you would expect to get all of that out from all over the country in that timeframe, that’s just not how wars work.
Equipment got left in Korea & Vietnam.
Equipment got left in every fricking warzone.
Do you have any idea how expensive it would be to get all of this equipment back into the country? There are only so many planes and boats. Also the ANA collapsed in about 3 to 5 days so I don’t know how you would expect to get all of that out from all over the country in that timeframe, that’s just not how wars work.
Posted on 8/31/21 at 12:14 pm to TideCPA
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I'm not defending leaving billions of dollars of equipment, vehicles, and munitions to the same people we've been fighting for 20 years. I'm simply saying it can be true that all of the vehicles at the Kabul airport were disabled, while the Taliban simultaneously joyrides around in the rest of the vehicles we left scattered around the country.
It seems this begs the question: why should we give any legitimacy whatsoever to any pronouncement put out by the very entities who contributed to this 20 year cl#sterf#ck?
Posted on 8/31/21 at 12:19 pm to Plx1776
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Russia for some of their working aircrafts?
Again. why would the Russian need these aircraft? They have some of the most advanced combat helicopters in the world. In addition, I think the Russians probably learned a lesson in dealing with Afghanistan back in the 1980s.
Posted on 8/31/21 at 12:21 pm to robotgoat
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Correct! Pilots had to bug out anyway. Why not fly the aircraft out with them?
Because helos don't have that kind of range.
Posted on 8/31/21 at 12:49 pm to TS1926
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Because helos don't have that kind of range.
right, plus Afghanistan is surrounded by countries not friendly to the USA. UAE is the closest semi-friendly but to get there they would have to fly over most of Afghanistan, some of Iran and the Persian Gulf to get to UAE. Too far to fly and too hostile to fly over.
Obviously, the 400,000 small arms plus ammo left behind are highly operable. I wonder how the military disabled those pallets of US $s and other currencies left behind?
This post was edited on 8/31/21 at 12:51 pm
Posted on 8/31/21 at 12:55 pm to Toomer Deplorable
Time to deploy the tic-tacs. These aircraft will start falling out of the sky.
Posted on 8/31/21 at 12:56 pm to Craig86
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Do you have any idea how expensive it would be to get all of this equipment back into the country?
In the case of a C-130, Imma take a SWAG and say “Less than buying a new one”.
I’ll also posit the holds of these planes could have held a few guns and stuff.
This post was edited on 8/31/21 at 12:58 pm
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