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Re:Afghan president flees the country as Taliban move on Kabul by rich_sasha on Sunday August 15, 2021 @02:56PM (#28191384)
I suspect the kit will get bombed to smithereens by US et al too.

Modern armies do it to their own hardware if it’s at risk of being captured by the enemy. I guess there are few secretive things the Afghans got, but even that isn’t for wider consumption.

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Re:Afghan president flees the country as Taliban move on Kabul by hn_throwaway_99 on Sunday August 15, 2021 @11:05PM (#28194588)
That demonstrably did not happen. Did you see the picture on the cover of all of the major news sites of the Taliban sitting in the presidential palace? At least according to Reddit (I'm not an expert on military weaponry) those rifles are American made M4s and M16s.
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