Not only was the piloting bad, so was the camera work. Holy fuck, keep the thing in the centre of the shot.
Trying to fly is somehow not a blaphemy but pictures of people are.
It’s a matter of time before it happens to all of them. Helicopters require a ton of periodic maintenance, adjustments and upkeep. The Taliban don’t have the culture, knowledge or access to parts to keep those air worthy.
Flying one also requires a ton of training, which this “pilot” obviously didn’t have.
How did the Taliban get their hands on helicopters? I thought the US limited what armaments they gave the Afghan military to prevent them from falling into the wrong hands
There was a lot of leftover equipment due to the unexpected speed of the takeover. At the time there were discussions about destroying any remaining equipment but I believe they ended up figuring that things will naturally degrade and it isn’t like they have anyone trained in using/repairing American equipment. No classified info unlike Trump’s bathroom.
I think they didnt manage to evacuate all the materials from bases when they pulled out
A lot of maintenance is required for the equipment left behind. Sure, it looks good on their recruitment posters temporarily, but then 4 years later you get videos like this. Silly Taliban probably should have left some of those women studying engineering alone.
Allah wasn’t very Akbar that day…
“I’ll bet I could fly that thing! How hard could it be?”
Narrator: it was very hard
Maybe God is punishing them for being terrible.
The US sabotaged any equipment left behind. My guess is that they fixed that Black Hawk using parts off of multiple and some controls failed during their test.
Probably not. We only destroyed the classified stuff, there’s no reason to make them unsafe and endanger people when you can buy them used for a couple hundred thousand anyway.
A new UH-60L is around $10-$20 million depending on avionics and weapons, and I am under the impression that even an old 1990s A-variant would still cost upwards of $2 million.
One example: https://www.hangar67.com/aircraft-for-sale/turbine-helicopters/sikorsky/uh60a-black-hawk
A combat used, desert abandoned Blackhawk without necessary maintainance records can’t be sold in any country that cares about that which is pretty much everyone but poor middle eastern countries and Russia. That makes it a couple hundred thousand (essentially the scrap value) and we’ve been dumping these things across the planet for the last 30 years so there’s no shortage of crappy barely flight worthy ones popping about.
My guess is they bought the DCS Huey to learn how to fly out but refused to buy the collective. Keyboard and mouse to collective is very disorienting.
Haha, good point. I stand corrected. :)
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Free Blackhawks for the Taliban.
