75,000 vehicles

[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.