75,000 vehicles

[Copper]

A friend posted this on Facebook, he owns a company that builds some very nice high-end sim software

In my company’s role of building flight simulator software, we had the great pleasure of sometimes creating simulators to help our fighting forces train better. In order to do that, we sometimes needed to get eyes on to the actual aircraft and systems we were simulating. This was often a challenge due to security clearance requirements, meaning sometimes we had to build things that we never got to see in person.

And yet now, our government has allowed the Taliban to get eyes and hands on our most sensitive equipment that I wasn’t always allowed to see. They have their grubby hands on the same equipment that many of my colleagues and close friends operated when they were there. What the hell is going on?

I am sick to my stomach thinking that some Taliban or ISIS fighter has their hands on the same control stick in the same aircraft that my friends handled on behalf of our country. I am sick. This is sick.

[George K]

[George K]

[George K]

Not the Bee:

The Taliban say they are 'angry and disappointed' and feel 'betrayed' after America left so many inoperable helicopters and planes because 'the aircraft belong to Afghanistan'

Taliban fighters have been left feeling 'angry' and 'betrayed' after discovering the US had disabled military helicopters and planes before their departure from Kabul.

US troops 'demilitarised' 73 aircraft before their departure this week according to the commander of the US evacuation mission, Gen. Frank McKenzie.

That left up to 48 aircraft in the hands of the terror group, although it was not known how many were operable.

But the Taliban had 'expected the Americans to leave helicopters like this in one piece for their use', according to an Al Jazeera reporter who toured the airport after the withdrawal.

She said: 'When I said to them, "why do you think that the Americans would have left everything operational for you?" They said because we believe it is a national asset and we are the government now and this could have come to great use for us.'

She added: 'They are disappointed, they are angry, they feel betrayed because all of this equipment is broken beyond repair.'

[89th]

It really highlights how out of sync their mentality is with ours. Almost as if there are tribal ethics to follow.

[Mik]

This is one of the few bright spots.

[Rainman]

I wonder what they did to the equipment, where the taliban could not use the parts off of one machine to repair another identical machine.

[89th]

@rainman said in 75,000 vehicles:

I wonder what they did to the equipment, where the taliban could not use the parts off of one machine to repair another identical machine.

I'm sure half of it was the destruction of the engine or at least computer components that run the vehicle.

[LuFins Dad]

@rainman said in 75,000 vehicles:

I wonder what they did to the equipment, where the taliban could not use the parts off of one machine to repair another identical machine.

They took the keys…

[Horace]

There's wires under the dashboard where if you rip them out and connect two of them, the engine starts. Don't tell the Taliban that though.

[Doctor Phibes]

They're probably trying to fix them with tools left behind by the Soviets, which would have completely incompatible thread-types.

[Copper]

because the soviets would never use technology from the west

[Catseye3]

“We've made the Taliban into a major U.S. arms dealer for the next decade,” said Andrzejewski. “They now control 75,000 military vehicles. This is about 50,000 tactical vehicles, 20,000 Humvees they control about 1,000 mine-resistant vehicles, and even about 150 armored personnel carriers.”

And:

"I am sick to my stomach thinking that some Taliban or ISIS fighter has their hands on the same control stick in the same aircraft that my friends handled on behalf of our country. I am sick. This is sick."

This. Want to weep.

[Larry]

I heard someone on the radio today mention that there is still a resistance group made up of Afghan special ops guys, they are all fighting in one region, the only region where the US destroyed all the American military equipment.

Think about that..... the Biden administration leaves military weaponry all over the places where the Taliban has moved in and taken control, but the one area where the Afghanis are still fighting and need the equipment it was all destroyed.

[89th]

@doctor-phibes said in 75,000 vehicles:

They're probably trying to fix them with tools left behind by the Soviets, which would have completely incompatible thread-types.

Do you think instead of Allen wrenches and Phillips head screwdrivers? They have Vlad wrenches and Sergey head screwdrivers?

[Doctor Phibes]

@copper said in 75,000 vehicles:

because the soviets would never use technology from the west

The west uses metric fittings. Americans use something known as "Imperial". Like the mints.

[Horace]

@89th said in 75,000 vehicles:

@doctor-phibes said in 75,000 vehicles:

They're probably trying to fix them with tools left behind by the Soviets, which would have completely incompatible thread-types.

Do you think instead of Allen wrenches and Phillips head screwdrivers? They have Vlad wrenches and Sergey head screwdrivers?

Yes. Yes, I think that.