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2021-08-15 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

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Posted by Skidmark 2021-08-15 00:03|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top
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#1 Another long suffering CIA experiment concluded.

Posted by Dron66046 2021-08-15 03:38|| 2021-08-15 03:38|| Front Page Top

#2 Guess what's going to be bombed next?

Posted by Procopius2k 2021-08-15 08:40|| 2021-08-15 08:40|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2021-08-15 09:53|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2021-08-15 09:59|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2021-08-15 10:10|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2021-08-15 11:09|| Front Page Top

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