Afghanistan

[rooster]

Any bets it ends up in China and/or Pakistan?

I’ll bet China and Russia are playing nice with the taliban to get their hands on one of those *edit: now unsure on drone models captured

Working, uncrashed drones making their way into enemy hands,This is a complete disaster.

 

[printcraft]

@ about 4:15... Woman: "This is our country, I'm not afraid of the taliban." Yeah, good luck with that.

 

[printcraft]

Can't say it was unexpected.

But bidet DIRECTLY warned them not to attack!!!!

 

[ghuns]

I’ll bet China and Russia are playing nice with the taliban to get their hands on one of those global hawks.

Working, uncrashed drones making their way into enemy hands,This is a complete disaster.
Not to mention the 220 million a piece taxpayers are out for.

I might have missed it, but where is it being reported that Global Hawk drones were lost? Cause that would be HUGE news. $100 million drones aren't something we'd leave behind for the Afghan military to play around with.

So far it looks like just some Scan Eagles, which are commercially available to anyone with enough $$$ to buy one. Around $3 million a piece.

 

[rooster]

Evacuations on hold until airport can be secured. Wonder if it’s under attack or if they are pushing all the Afghans out after that Falling man video hit the internet last night. It’s NSFL

 

[rhamersley]

Didn’t see it put here last night, so if dupe please forgive…

 

[rooster]

I might have missed it, but where is it being reported that Global Hawk drones were lost? Cause that would be HUGE news. $100 million drones aren't something we'd leave behind for the Afghan military to play around with.

So far it looks like just some Scan Eagles, which are commercially available to anyone with enough $$$ to buy one. Around $3 million a piece.

Can’t find it. Might have misread. I’ll edit for clarification

 

[printcraft]

Well, the equipment maybe. How about maintenance, logistics? Oh, and that little thing... trained pilots?

Why was any of that equipment left in one piece?

 

[KittySlayer]

...$100 million drones aren't something we'd SHOULD leave behind for the Afghan military to play around with...

Sadly when the administrations plan is to leave in 18 weeks and instead has to evacuate in 18 days there will be a lot of toys left behind.

 

[funeralweb]

Evacuations on hold until airport can be secured. Wonder if it’s under attack or if they are pushing all the Afghans out after that Falling man video hit the internet last night. It’s NSFL

I vividly remember a certain Falling Man Video from 19 years, 49 weeks and 5 days (almost at this very minute) ago….

 

[NKBJ]

Send in the Space Command.

 

[printcraft]

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[rhamersley]

 

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[jsx1043]

Can't help but notice, we were dependent on private citizen social media accounts to provide video of the grabasstic Dunkirk evacuation, and the purported video of the goat ****ers in the government palace is from Al Jazeera. We're not getting much of a scoop from the American Mainstream Media, and the President isn't talking. The safety of the Americans involved has not even been assured yet. The Administration is in the midst of a personal Benghazi event that could doom the Presidency, and it appears the American Media were basically going to knowingly or unknowingly leave it unreported - up until Al Jazeera and Social Media pulled the curtain off the full oscillating rotator aspect of the situation.

Due to the *******ish nature of basically anything online these days, the picture comparing the Chinook evacs from the Saigon and Kabul embassies was online and in wide circulation before the chopper even took off from the first load in Kabul. Just goes to show how powerful independent citizen media is and how much is being censored and controlled by our own Pravda.

 

[rhamersley]

 

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[KittySlayer]

While many are brave and noble comrades I have to wonder if there are some sleeper cell terrorist getting a ride on Air America to bring future harm to our country. Of course they can easily walk across our southern border too.

 

[rooster]

While many are brave and noble comrades I have to wonder if there are some sleeper cell terrorist getting a ride on Air America to bring future harm to our country. Of course they can easily walk across our southern border too.

Maybe that’s the point?

 

[jsx1043]

Yeah, and I’m totally sure that he and his fanatical cronies aren’t at all mad at the US and other western allies and totally won’t align themselves and cooperate with nations that are building up towards action against the US and western nations...

*cough* China *cough* Russia