US and Nato withdrawal from Afghanistan...- threadbanned users in OP

Even if they have pilots and mechanics who they force to maintain/fly the planes they are worthless without rockets/ammo.

What do you think the Taliban will do? Force them to fly a plane or a helicopter to do what?

While you may be right about the Blackhawks, both the MD530s and the Cessna Caravans are widely sold in the civilian world. The same goes for the Pilatus PC-12s that they have. Getting spare parts for them is mostly going to be an issue of funds. Now, installing them is another matter. As rugged as a Cessna Caravan may be, you still need a technician that actually knows what he's doing.

You don't need weapons to use aircraft effectively, especially if your likely enemy has no air force of their own to counter you. The ability to fly reconnaissance missions or airlift troops to a certain location is a pretty major factor in itself. And you don't need fancy rockets or guided missile to supress fire in a landing zone long enough to drop your troops, .50 cals in door mounts in whatever helicopter you're using will do the job just fine. Once again, the question circles back to the original issue: Are there enough Afghan Air Force veterans left in the country that are willing, or can be "convinced" to work for the Taliban to ensure that a decent amount of aircraft are operational? That's the one million dollar question here.

"50 cals in door mounts in whatever helicopter you're using will do the job just fine."

Stop watching Rambo movies 🤣

Ref, Rory Stewarts quote " Afghanistan is a Country with 22'000 villages, towns and a few cities " now thats some patchwork quilt of different territories and ethnic groupings. And in the past, when they were not united fighting a common enemy, the kept in trim fighting amongst them selves.

Unfortunately, the amount of ammo rounds for all weapons left behind is in the tens of millions,,ditto rockets etc. And even if they did manage to destroy ( and they did mount several attacks ) several munition dumps, there is still far to much left. No, what ever else will bother them, it will not be a shortage of ammo.

People keep trying to make this sound as if it was the Yanks that "left" this military equipment "behind". It was handed down to the Afghan National Army to use as their own equipment. If it was anyone's responsibility to make sure that this stuff didn't fall into the wrong hands, it was the ANA's at that point. The US were never bringing this stuff back with them and they didn't have the resources in Afghanistan to make sure it was all destroyed after the ANA downed tools.

Why would they want to mount 50 cal machine guns in aircraft that are already weaponised to the hilt??? Thats what war planes / helicopters are, moveable weapons platforms. And as for weaponising Toyota / Hilux pick-up's, they are past masters at that.

At least they won't need to hand out stingers to get rid of them , black hawks are easy enough to take out from the ground and air

I was refering to the fact that they will still be drones

"unfortunately the majority are not like that,they are armed and dangerous."

Again you make a statement of fact without posting a source for your claim.

You think the one pictured is not beyond repair? Have you any idea about how fragile helicopters really are? That's just the outside, a few wires ripped out from the inside and that things a very expensive plant holder 🙄

Cut to scene of top Taliban officials driving around Kabul in a fleet of brand new Toyota Priuses.

A journalist Lynne O'Donnell was on the tonight show VM 1 last night and said the Haqqani network were behind the bomb that kill loads of people.

The leader is second in command in taliban Sirajuddin Haqqani she said.

So it seems ISIS-K weren't behind the bomb but blamed on it to get US to bomb them.