Billions worth of equipment to be left in the Stan

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The link below from a short time ago looks at the plans for the British Military to remove about 4 Billion pound worth of Military major equipment out of Afghanistan, but recent problems and a cooling of relationships with Pakistan and other countries surrounding Afgahanistan, could result in billions worth of equipment been dumped or left to the Afgahanistan forces.

Britain begins preparations for Afghanistan withdrawal - Telegraph

Report in the Daily mail this morning now talks for 2 Billions pounds of Military vehicles having to be left, The UK military has 1900 major combat vehicles in place but only 700 have been identified for recovery and 1200 combat vehicles will be handed over free of charge to Afgahanistan security forces, (It would have been a dogs ear getting them all in but ten time worse getting them out) These figures do not include the 400 protected Landrovers already handed over. I think these figures do not include the hundreds if not thousands of support vehicles and rigs that will also be left, vehicles such as trucks, forklifts, ground equipment and spares.

The plan to leave these 1200 very expensive upgraded vehicles represents the largest inventory of equipment the British Army has ever left behind since the disasters of WW2 including Dunkirk and Greece. The last time this happened on a scale similar to this was in 1967 withdrawl from Aden when hundreds of Vehicles were left on the RAF runway and Bombed by the Fleet Air Arm to stop them falling in to the hands of the locals, but these were mainly old RL 3 tonners and Landrovers and not very very expensive kit with some of these vehicles costing more than £100,000 each.

I posted on the last man to die in stan thread earlier and it seems the disaster is starting to fold out before our eyes, let us all hope in just in material and not later on in lives.