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Afghanistan: Black Hawks and Humvees - military kit now with the Taliban

8/30/21
from BBC,
8/29/21:

A video recently posted on social media showed Taliban fighters looking on as an iconic piece of US materiel (military hardware) - a Black Hawk helicopter - was piloted across Kandahar airport. The four-blade multi-purpose aircraft was just taxiing on the tarmac, but the exercise sent a message to the world: the Taliban were no longer a group of ragtag soldiers wielding Kalashnikov assault rifles on battered pickup trucks. Elsewhere, since the fall of Kabul on 15 August to the hard-line Islamist group, the Taliban's fighters have been pictured showing off a host of US-made weaponry and vehicles.

At least 3,012 Humvees

At least 3,598 M4 Carbines

31 Mobile Strike Force Vehicles

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