It's Worse Than We Thought!

It’s an impressive haul for a group that was once dismissed as a band of rural Luddites when it emerged in the 1990s. But despite its austere interpretations of Islam and rejection of much of modern society, the Taliban has shown flexibility when it comes to technology. It has been active on the Internet and social media. And its fighters are no strangers to U.S. military equipment.

“The Taliban have already been using sophisticated military equipment that they have captured from Afghan national security forces in recent years,” said Robert Crews, an expert on Afghanistan at Stanford University. “They have used everything from night-vision goggles and scopes to sniper rifles and armored vehicles and artillery.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/08/20/us-weapons-taliban-afghanistan/
 
anatta said:
It’s an impressive haul for a group that was once dismissed as a band of rural Luddites when it emerged in the 1990s. But despite its austere interpretations of Islam and rejection of much of modern society, the Taliban has shown flexibility when it comes to technology. It has been active on the Internet and social media. And its fighters are no strangers to U.S. military equipment.

“The Taliban have already been using sophisticated military equipment that they have captured from Afghan national security forces in recent years,” said Robert Crews, an expert on Afghanistan at Stanford University. “They have used everything from night-vision goggles and scopes to sniper rifles and armored vehicles and artillery.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/08/20/us-weapons-taliban-afghanistan/
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Captured from Afghan national security forces? I thought they were trained for 20 years by the US?
 
You are a dummy...there are terrorist groups and countries all over the world that will buy that equipment.
 
anatta said:
They can operate tanks, they can't maintain choppers or air.
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They can operate them, but can they fix them when they break down, which will happen almost immediately? No.


The amount of armored vehicles is staggering as are the weapons caches
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The armored vehicles are useless without mechanics to maintain them.

The weapons caches...well...if you don't have a problem with insane and dangerous people having guns in the US, why do you care about insane and dangerous people having them halfway across the world?
 
Okay. So who? ISIS? Iran? Iraq? Syria? Saudi Arabia? What?

And who will be responsible for the transportation and the logistics? And how will they do it undetected?
 
anatta said:
It’s an impressive haul for a group that was once dismissed as a band of rural Luddites when it emerged in the 1990s. But despite its austere interpretations of Islam and rejection of much of modern society, the Taliban has shown flexibility when it comes to technology. It has been active on the Internet and social media. And its fighters are no strangers to U.S. military equipment.

“The Taliban have already been using sophisticated military equipment that they have captured from Afghan national security forces in recent years,” said Robert Crews, an expert on Afghanistan at Stanford University. “They have used everything from night-vision goggles and scopes to sniper rifles and armored vehicles and artillery.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/08/20/us-weapons-taliban-afghanistan/
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Using that stuff and maintaining it are two completely different things.

There are more active duty mechanics in the US Army than active duty soldiers.
 
AProudLefty said:
Okay. So who? ISIS? Iran? Iraq? Syria? Saudi Arabia? What?

And who will be responsible for the transportation and the logistics? And how will they do it undetected?
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Exactly...all that stuff is just junk.

It's inoperable without the trained mechanics to maintain it.
 
LV426 said:
Using that stuff and maintaining it are two completely different things.

There are more active duty mechanics in the US Army than active duty soldiers.
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LOL he doesn't understand that. Maintaining millions of dollars worth of equipment requires highly skilled mechanics.
 
LV426 said:
Exactly...all that stuff is just junk.

It's inoperable without the trained mechanics to maintain it.
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They will keep the armored vehicles running. The aircraft won't be flyable long. The small arms will be around a very long time. The other vehicle will run a long time. All that stuff is not junk.
 
LV426 said:
Exactly...all that stuff is just junk.

It's inoperable without the trained mechanics to maintain it.
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They will keep the armored vehicles running. The aircraft won't be flyable long. The small arms will be around a very long time. The other vehicle will run a long time. All that stuff is not junk.
 
ExpressLane said:
The small arms will be around a very long time.
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You're talking out of your ass.

Also, since you have no problem with dangerous and insane people getting guns in the US, why do you care about dangerous and insane people getting guns half a world away?
 
ExpressLane said:
You certainly can operate M 16 and grenades' and C4 and you can drive Ford Rangers
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Who fucking cares?

Seriously, why do you care?

You don't care when crazy, dangerous people get guns in the US, so why do you care so much about crazy, dangerous people getting guns in Afganistan?

What it comes down to is that you're full of shit and you talk out of your ass.
 
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