Planes, armored cars and air defense: what the Americans left at the Kabul airport

The American army left huge trophies at the Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul. We are talking about dozens of units of armored vehicles, various aircraft and anti-aircraft systems.

According to US Marine Corps General Frank McKenzie, during the evacuation, the US military made sure that a variety of weapons and equipment were destroyed or otherwise disabled. However, the video that appeared on the eve of the flights over Kandahar of the American UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter, which was inherited by the Taliban movement (banned in the Russian Federation) as a trophy, makes us doubt the truth of the general's words.

According to The Drive, the list of abandoned equipment and equipment included two C-RAM anti-missile, artillery and mortar defense systems, which are armed with missiles and six-barreled 20-mm Centurium cannons. The cost of one installation is $ 15 million.

70 armored trucks equipped with enhanced mine protection MRAP, as well as 27 Humvee armored vehicles were also left behind.

73 aircraft were abandoned at the airport. This includes A-29 Super Tucano light attack aircraft, C-130H Hercules transport aircraft, UH-60 Black Hawk and Mi-17 transport helicopters, as well as L-39 training jet aircraft.

At the same time, General Mackenzie, as the newspaper notes, did not provide any detailed information about the aircraft that were disabled at the airport. He only said that some of them were already in an emergency condition by the time the evacuation began.

Earlier, 22 military aircraft and 24 helicopters of the National Air Corps of Afghanistan flew to the territory of Uzbekistan.

Nikolay Grishchenko