How much military equipment was left in Afghanistan? The US helicopters and arms now under Taliban control
The US military said it has not ruled out the possibility of bombing equipment worth billions of dollars
https://inews.co.uk/news/world/military-equipment-left-afghanistan-how-much-us-helicopters-arms-taliban-control-black-hawk-1176117
It includes 75,000 vehicles, 200 aeroplanes and helicopters, and 600,000 small arms, according to former US Navy reservist Jim Banks.
“The Taliban now has more Black Hawk helicopters than 85 per cent of the countries in the world,” he told The Telegraph.
“Unfathomable to me and so many others, the Taliban now has biometric devices which have the fingerprints, eye scans and biographical information of all the Afghans who helped us and were on our side in the last 20 years.”
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I am reminded of what happened to the USS Cole in 2000.
Terrorist Attack on USS Cole
https://www.history.navy.mil/research/library/online-reading-room/title-list-alphabetically/t/terrorist-attack-on-uss-cole-background-and-issues-for-congress.html
The Cole (DDG-67) is an Aegis-equipped Arleigh Burke (DDG-51) class destroyer. It was one of four DDG-51s procured in FY1991 at an average cost of about $789 million per ship.
Repairs to bombed Cole could cost $150 million
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The terrorists used ONE SMALL BOAT and nearly sank the Cole.
These guys put the "a" in "asymmetric warfare".
They tell us that "some" (?) of the gear left behind "may" have been disabled, but we should have left nothing behind, particularly THE CIVILIANS.
This has to be EXPLAINED to Joe Biden???