More than $ 7 billion!The report states that most of Afghanistan aid military equipment "stays" to Taliban

According to the New York Post reported on the 16th, the director of the US Department of Defense issued a report released on Tuesday that when the former Afghan government collapsed last year, the total value provided by the United States was more than $ 7 billion in military equipment. After the U.S. military evacuated from Afghanistan, most of them had fallen into the hands of Taliban.

New York Post report screenshot

The report shows that when the Taliban armed personnel entered Kabul on August 15 last year, the Afghan military's weapon library had about $ 4.12 billion in tactical ground vehicles, such as Hummer and anti -mines to ambush the "MRAP" armored vehicle. In addition, the abandoned equipment also includes a military aircraft worth $ 923.3 million, "some of them have been destroyed during the evacuation of the U.S. military", as well as US $ 294.6 million aviation ammunition.

The Deputy Minister's Office of the US Department of Defense provided these data in the report. The office added that "the Afghan army seriously relies on the support of the United States contractors to maintain its aircraft and ground vehicles. Without this continuous support, the long -term operability of these equipment will be restricted."

After the U.S. military evacuated, the members of the Taliban sat in the cockpit of an airplane source: People's Vision

The report also stated that 316,260 small weapons worth 511.8 billion US dollars were managed by the Afghan military at the time, including rifles, sniper rifles, pistols, machine guns, rocket pushing grenade (RPG) launchers and grenades, but the whereabouts of these weapons are unknown Essence In addition, when the Taliban armed personnel entered Kabul, there were communication equipment, explosive detectors, night vision equipment and other monitoring equipment in the weapon library of the former Afghanistan government forces.

The report of this director of the director also pointed out that in addition to some tactical vehicles transferred to the Afghan Ministry of Defense at the beginning of last year, and other destroyed old vehicles, the U.S. military "almost demolished all the main equipment" during the evacuation period. The supervisory agency found that before the withdrawal of the withdrawal on August 30 last year, the U.S. military's equipment that could not be transported from Kabul Airport was also destroyed or unavailable.

Picture source: American media

From 2005 to 2021, the US Pentagon spent about 84 billion US dollars with security assistance to the Afghan army, of which 18.6 billion US dollars were used to buy weapons. In these 16 years, the United States spent $ 612 million to buy 427,300 weapons, "including 258,300 rifles, 6,300 sniper rifles, 64,300 pistols, 56155 tall machine guns, 31,000 rockets promoted grenades and 224 gates Grenade cannon ".

The New York Post mentioned that on the occasion of this report, the U.S. President's Bayeng government's handling of the withdrawal of the forces was being criticized by Republican members. Re -control Congress in the mid -term elections of Congress will seek answers from the White House. (Edit: HHJ)

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