re: #259 lawhawk

Shrodinger’s Aircraft. They are simultaneously an urgent and imminent threat and incapable of powered or unpowered flight because all the components required for flight have been inactivated and can’t be readily replaced by those who now control said aircraft.

Inorite?
Watching clips of the Talibanis strolling through hangars inspecting their “equipment” troves looked to me more like they were in a junkyard than an arsenal.
And the breathless reportage of “23,000 Humvees” left behind? It sounds like the biggest threat there is going to be to the used-Humvee market.

BTW, can any arms-savvy Lizards explain the other big haul the Taliban reportedly got: of “980,000 rifles”. What type are these likely to be? US (M-16 type?)? I thought the Afghans generally used/preferred the good old Kalashnikov types…?