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Re: Current US Military

Post by DrYouth » Tue Aug 31, 2021 12:53 pm

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Seems like the Taliban just levelled up at least 100%…. Probably more.

I guess that will just make them more of a regional player.

India, China and Russia are going to fight among themselves for whose pawn they would like them to be against Pakistan.

Bet on Pakistan for the foreseeable future.
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Re: Current US Military

Post by C-Mag » Tue Aug 31, 2021 12:57 pm

DrYouth wrote:
Tue Aug 31, 2021 12:53 pm
Hastur wrote:
Mon Aug 30, 2021 3:52 am
Seems like the Taliban just levelled up at least 100%…. Probably more.

I guess that will just make them more of a regional player.

India, China and Russia are going to fight among themselves for whose pawn they would like them to be against Pakistan.

Bet Pakistan for now.
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Re: Current US Military

Post by DrYouth » Tue Aug 31, 2021 1:03 pm

C-Mag wrote:
Tue Aug 31, 2021 12:57 pm

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Free Loot Crates when you get past the big boss....................... it's a rule
With more loot boxes, they will simply be a more viable player….
Maybe they will be a serious enough contender to give Pakistan some trouble.
And certainly not to get pushed around by Al-Qaida.

I don’t see them coming after their benefactors though…. Other than for some bragging rights… of which they already have more than enough.
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Re: Current US Military

Post by Haumana » Tue Aug 31, 2021 10:38 pm

Keep your eye out for John Doyle, if you aren't already familiar.


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Re: Current US Military

Post by DBTrek » Wed Sep 01, 2021 10:09 am

Taliban parade captured US military equipment in Kandahar

Taliban fighters have stood aboard captured Humvees as they prepared for a parade of plundered US military hardware in their southern Afghan heartland.

A long line of green vehicles sat in single file on Wednesday on a highway outside Afghanistan’s second-biggest city, Kandahar, many with white-and-black Taliban flags attached to aerials, according to an AFP journalist.

Fighters manned the controls of the multi-purpose trucks – used by US, Nato and Afghan forces during Afghanistan’s 20 years of war – while others clambered over the vehicles at Ayno Maina, a town on the outskirts of the city.

Pick-up trucks laden with supporters rolled past the convoy of military vehicles, some armed with heavy weapons and machine guns.

At least one Black Hawk helicopter has been seen flying over Kandahar in recent days, suggesting someone from the former Afghan army was at the controls as the Taliban lack qualified pilots.

Kandahar is the ethnic Pashtun heartland of the Taliban where the hardline group was founded and from where it rose to power in 1996. By 2001, when US-led forces invaded, the Taliban had seized control of most of the country....

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/ ... n-kandahar

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Re: Current US Military

Post by C-Mag » Wed Sep 01, 2021 10:32 am

I just hope the Mujahedeen used all those stingers..... fucking Reagan.
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Re: Current US Military

Post by DBTrek » Wed Sep 01, 2021 10:34 am

C-Mag wrote:
Wed Sep 01, 2021 10:32 am
I just hope the Mujahedeen used all those stingers..... fucking Reagan.
40 year old stingers are definitely at the top of everyone's anxiety list.
I mean, now that Nuclear Hitler has been replaced by "the adults".
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Re: Current US Military

Post by Smitty-48 » Wed Sep 01, 2021 10:39 am

C-Mag wrote:
Wed Sep 01, 2021 10:32 am
I just hope the Mujahedeen used all those stingers..... fucking Reagan.
no way an FIM-92 from the 80's is still serviceable, those Stingers rotted into n/s status long ago

the shelf life of a MANPADS is pretty good, but it still turns into junk after about twenty years
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Re: Current US Military

Post by C-Mag » Wed Sep 01, 2021 10:42 am

DBTrek wrote:
Wed Sep 01, 2021 10:34 am
C-Mag wrote:
Wed Sep 01, 2021 10:32 am
I just hope the Mujahedeen used all those stingers..... fucking Reagan.
40 year old stingers are definitely at the top of everyone's anxiety list.
I mean, now that Nuclear Hitler has been replaced by "the adults".
It's a handy way to blame anyone but the guy in charge.

Maybe we can blame General Vessey, instead of White Rage Milley.
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Re: Current US Military

Post by C-Mag » Wed Sep 01, 2021 10:43 am

Smitty-48 wrote:
Wed Sep 01, 2021 10:39 am
C-Mag wrote:
Wed Sep 01, 2021 10:32 am
I just hope the Mujahedeen used all those stingers..... fucking Reagan.
no way an FIM-92 from the 80's is still serviceable, those Stingers rotted into n/s status long ago

the shelf life of a MANPADS is pretty good, but it still turns into junk after about twenty years
Yep, it's an ignorant thing to bring up.
And a bunch of them weren't even stingers, but the earlier version called red eye.
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