Guess what - Biden left the Taliban a fully functional military Air Force supplied by the USA....
Once the Taliban seized control of Afghanistan’s airfield in Kandahar on Friday, it didn’t take long for photos to appear on social media showing Taliban fighters posing with military helicopters such as U.S.-made Black Hawks and Soviet-made Mi-17s.
After the group took over Mazar-i-Sharif airport this weekend, more photos followed, this time of Taliban members standing next to an A-29 attack plane and MD-530 utility helicopter.
Now, with Afghanistan under Taliban control, the question is no longer whether the organization will gain access to the Afghan air force’s inventory of U.S.-provided planes and helicopters, but what it plans to do with them — and what the U.S. military can do in response.
Washington’s efforts to re-equip the Afghan military had resulted in an inventory boasting 25 A-29s, 74 MD530s and 11 Black Hawks, along with four Lockheed Martin C-130H tactical transports, 34 Cessna 208B Caravan turboprops, including armed examples, and 18 Pilatus PC-12NGs.
95 Mil Mi-8/17-series transport helicopters made up one-third of Afghanistan’s military aircraft, with eight armed Mi-24s also in its fleet, military data shows. The remainder includes 10 Bell UH-1 transports aged up to 53 years, a trio of Aerospatiale SA315 light rotorcraft and two Harbin Y-12 transports.