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Afghanistan
Air Taliban: Fighters seize $6million US Blackhawk helicopters alongside tons of American equipment - while taking to the skies in captured Russian choppers as advance approaches outskirts of Kabul
2021-08-15
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Videos on social media show insurgents flying the Russian-made aircraft around the Afghan city of Kandahar

  • More clips also show how the Taliban have additionally seized American-made Black Hawk helicopters

  • Fighters are unlikely to possess the knowledge or the expertise to fly or maintain the state-of-the-art aircraft

  • But it will cause embarrassment after the White House spent billions of dollars supplying the Afghan mili
Posted by:Skidmark

#6  You don't really need a remote kill switch, just a code that needs entered to keep the electronics happy once a week. Of course, for many years the PALs on all our nukes were reportedly set to 00000, so maybe that's not much of a remedy either.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2021-08-15 11:09  

#5  I thought all the top level US equipment sent to Afghanistan would have remotely control 'kill switches' to disable them in these circumstances.

Guess I was wrong.
Posted by: Lord Garth   2021-08-15 10:10  

#4  /\ Veiled threat leaked to the media by 'top men' in Foggy Bottom and vicinity. International aid for a struggling new government must have serviceable runways to land and offload.

Please keep those stay-hehind K-Loaders serviceable, unless you worthless foks want to unload it all by hand.

Former Senator John Kerry will be arriving any day to coordinate detainee repatriation and financial compensations. Please see that suitable accommodations and transport are made available.

Posted by: Besoeker   2021-08-15 09:59  

#3  There was a story yesterday evening that they were sending B52's to arclight the airbases.
Posted by: ed in texas   2021-08-15 09:53  

#2  Guess what's going to be bombed next?
Posted by: Procopius2k   2021-08-15 08:40  

#1  Another long suffering CIA experiment concluded.
Posted by: Dron66046   2021-08-15 03:38  

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