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Leaving Vietnam vs AFG

wink

wink

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My bad. Just got on Flash for not using smiles. It was meant to be rhetorical, not necessarily sarcasm. A question mark would have fixed it up. Brett's post works as a reply to my rhetorical.
 
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Flash

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wink said:
So the Taliban won't be inclined to cozy to China because of its treatment of Uighurs. And who would do business with them as if this is 2002? I think we will find they have business partners, including possibly technical support of abandoned military equipment. Time will tell.

www.aa.com.tr

China will be our main partner, say Taliban

Beijing ready to invest in Afghanistan, help rebuild country, says Taliban spokesman - Anadolu Ajansı
www.aa.com.tr www.aa.com.tr
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Some hopes and dreams die harder than others.
 
RobLyman

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Sad trombone noise.

But as I mentioned earlier I can sure see their reasoning in that the equipment was the property of the AFG government and the Taliban is now the AFG government. It was sovereign property of another nation.

Also a raspberry noise for the newspaper talking about aircraft hangers.
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One cannot overlook the psy-op aspect of leaving 40 year old Black Hawks with the Tollybon. Spend a few sessions troubleshooting an aircraft with old Kapton wiring and you'll know what I am talking about. Imagine the random electrical problems that manifest when wiring with brittle insulation vibrates at different frequencies dependent upon flight regime and proximity to spinning (really all) components on a helicopter. And to add to the craziness, smack one (not both) stab amps or stab actuators on each aircraft with a monkey wrench before leaving. Their maintenance teams would defect, but only after wasting tons of man hours trouble shooting and arguing with each other.

Throw in some SHARP, substance abuse, CRT, extremism, and suicide prevention training and they'll be paralyzed as a fighting entity.
 
Jim123

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RobLyman said:
Throw in some SHARP, substance abuse, CRT, extremism, and suicide prevention training and they'll be paralyzed as a fighting entity.
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Shoot, maybe even one of them might try pouring hydraulic fluid in a tail gearbox. With a little ingenuity and determination, you can make it work with the thing that connects to the thing that you put on the can and the other thing with the gearbox.
 
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