American Military News by Liz George 4/28/2022
President Joe Biden’s administration left roughly $7 billion in military equipment behind in Afghanistan after the deadly withdrawal in August that left the Taliban in control, a new Pentagon report reviewed by CNN on Wednesday showed.
According to the report, the U.S. gave the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces $18.6 billion in equipment between 2005 and 2021. Approximately $7.12 billion was still in Afghanistan after the withdrawal, including aircraft, air-to-ground munitions, military vehicles, weapons, communications equipment and more.
The report states that Biden’s Department of Defense does not plan to “retrieve or destroy” the billions of dollars worth of equipment that is now under the Taliban’s control.
U.S. officials also relocated from Afghanistan to Ukraine more than 15 million rounds of Ball rifle ammunition, over 99,000 40 mm high-explosive/fragmentation grenade cartridges and roughly 119,000 82mm mortar rounds.
More than 40,000 military vehicles were abandoned in the now Taliban-controlled nation, including 12,000 military Humvees. The report added that “the operational condition of the remaining vehicles” is “unknown.”
Of the 427,300 weapons the U.S. gave Afghan forces prior to the withdrawal, more than 300,000 remained after the Taliban took over.
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