it's not equipment which makes the Taliban formidable
they just won the war with nothing more than AK's, RPG-7 & IED's
they don't need heavy equipment, in fact that just makes them a target
they just hide in plain sight then come out at night
the Taliban are a religious movement, a doomsday cult, that is the source of their power
they were the refugee children in the Afghan civil war
they were sent to Madrassas in Pakistan, as orphanages
there was about 200,000 of them in 2,000 schools along the border
then when Mullah Mohamed Omar incited a rebellion against the drug dealers in Kandahar
the rest of the Students flooded over the border to join the rebellion