U.S. Military Left Over $7 Billion of Military Equipment to Taliban, IG Report Confirms
August 19th, 2022Lockheed Martin et al. appreciate that it wasn’t recovered. Anyway, that stuff was too dusty, so Ukraine will get $9.8 billion worth of new weapons.
Via: Fox:
The U.S. government left behind more than $7 billion in military equipment when it pulled out of Afghanistan during a chaotic and deadly withdrawal last year, an inspector general confirmed Tuesday.
A Defense Department inspector general report explained that the majority of the $7 billion left behind in equipment in the country consisted of tactical ground vehicles such as Humvees and mine-resistant MRAPS.
The Afghan military possessed a ground vehicle inventory worth about $4.12 billion when Kabul fell to the Taliban in mid-August 2021.
In addition to the ground vehicles, the U.S. military lost $923.3 million worth of military aircraft and $294.6 million in aircraft munitions.
