![]() ![]() ![]() Same goes for the C-130s, he says, which, like the Black Hawks, have "fairly sophisticated maintenance requirements."īy contrast, if the Taliban could find somebody who knows anything about airplane engines, they could probably keep the A-29s flying, Schroden says.įor vehicles like the up-armored Humvees, known as MRAPS, "they've captured so many of them that they could cannibalize the ones they have for spare parts to keep the others running," he says. ![]() In the hands of the Taliban, they "would break and they would not be able to fix them," Schroden says. contractors maintained the Afghan military's Black Hawks. Then there's the question of maintenance and spare parts. They "don't need a lot of skill or training to use" small arms and night-vision devices, he tells NPR. Here Are The Reasons Why.Įven so, Bowman says, "I don't think this is an insurmountable problem for the Taliban and their al-Qaida partners."Ī lot of other items in the Taliban's new arsenal could easily be put to use, says Jonathan Schroden, the director of the Countering Threats and Challenges Program at the Center for Naval Analyses. Investigations The Afghan Army Collapsed In Days. ![]()
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