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Apr 28, 2022 · “Nearly all equipment used by U.S. military forces in Afghanistan was either retrograded or destroyed prior to our withdrawal and is not part of the $7.12 billion figure cited in the report.”
- Did The Taliban Acquire $80 Billion Worth of Military Equipment?
- The Taliban's New Arsenal?
- The U.S. Military Did Not Leave Everything Behind
- What About Black Hawk Helicopters?
- So What Equipment Did The Taliban Acquire?
One persistent claim is that the Taliban captured more than $80 billion worth of American military equipment. This is not true. The $80 billion figure does not reflect the amount of equipment acquired by the Taliban after America's withdrawal from Afghanistan. Rather, this number reflects the amount of money the United States spent to train and equ...
Many of the claims about how much equipment the Taliban took over after America's withdrawal center on a graphic entitled "Taliban's New Arsenal." This misleadingly titled graphic was created by the the UK newspaper The Times. This graphic does not show the amount of equipment acquired by the Taliban. Rather, it shows the sum total equipment that w...
Two incorrect assumptions have led to the claim that the U.S. left more than $80 billion worth of equipment behind. The first, as noted above, is that this $80 billion figure deals solely with military equipment. That's not the case. Only about $20 billion of this money went to military equipment. The second false assumption is that every piece of ...
Another common claim is that the Taliban is now in control of 33 Black Hawk helicopters. Again, this claim is based on the assumption that all of the Black Hawk helicopters in possession of the Afghan military were taken over by the Taliban. But that's not the case. The BBC reported that Afghan forces had 167 operational aircraft — including 33 Bla...
The Taliban truly did get their hands on plenty of American weapons and vehicles, but a precise accounting of this equipment is not currently available. What we can say is that many of the rumors circulating about the Taliban's haul deal with sum totals over the course of 20 years, not the amount that was actually left behind. The Taliban's new ars...
Apr 27, 2022 · Washington CNN — Approximately $7 billion of military equipment the US transferred to the Afghan government over the course of 16 years was left behind in Afghanistan after the US completed its...
Aug 31, 2021 · If that percentage held for the entire two-decade period, it would mean the U.S. has spent about $24 billion on equipment and transportation for Afghan forces since 2001. But even if that were true, much of the military equipment would be obsolete after years of use, according to Grazier.
Aug 18, 2021 · Indeed, photos published by newswires like the Associated Press and circulated on social media by eyewitnesses to the Taliban sweep of Kabul show militant fighters touting M4 and M16 rifles, M24 ...
Aug 31, 2021 · Pictures have emerged of Taliban fighters with military equipment left behind by US forces at Kabul's Hamid Karzai International Airport. A total of 73 aircraft, nearly 100 vehicles and other...
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The M249 SAW, M240, MK 19, and M2 machine guns can be mounted on vehicles. BGM-71 TOW mounted on Humvee and JLTV variants, as well as M2 and M3 Bradley. The M134 Minigun, fires 7.62mm ammunition at 3,000 to 4,000 rpm. The M3P Machine Gun, an M2 variant with a higher rate of fire mounted on the Avenger Humvee.
