Originally Posted by
JimEli
"rendered inoperable"
How? Painting over the registration markings? Taking the doors and windows off? Took the keys?
Easy as. Remove the dizzy cap. LOL.
Spose they cut the looms & removed the guts of the avionics. Oh and the wipers of course!
What an incredible loss of coin.
When the US military turned OFF the mains and sneaked out of Bagram Airfield in the middle of the night in early July without notifying their Afghan partners the local looters quickly followed.
The hundreds of abandoned armoured vehicles were a bit hard to sneak off with I'm guessing. And the keys were taken by the thoughtful departing troops.
https://apnews.com/article/bagram-af...251aaaa167e623
On the other hand it was nice of Uncle Joe to ensure the Taliban were gifted a fully working Kabul airport infrastructure at midnight on August 30.
PS. I'm just an old Aussie boomer, no skin in the game.