New Delhi: For the security and safety purpose, The US armed forces have disabled the scores of aircraft, Armored vehicles, and the high-tech rocket defense system before leaving the Kabul Airport, The US general on Monday said.
Central Command head General Kenneth McKenzie said that “Total 73 aircraft that were already at Hamid Karzai International Airport were ‘demilitarized’ by US troops before they wrapped up the two-week evacuation of the Taliban-controlled country,”
“The aircrafts disabled by the US armed forces – will never fly again, and it will never be able to be operated by anyone. Most of them are non-mission capable, to begin with, but certainly, they will never be able to be flown again,” General Kenneth McKenzie said.
The utilization of US-made weapons by the Taliban was a huge concern. The official statement said that “The Pentagon, which built up a force of nearly 6,000 troops to occupy and operate Kabul’s airport when the airlift began on August 14, left behind around 70 MRAP armored tactical vehicles, which can cost up to $1 million apiece that it disabled before leaving, and 27 Humvees.”
“The vehicles which were used by the US forces in Afghanistan – will never be used again by anyone,” McKenzie said.
Due to some reasons – the US left behind the C-RAM system, artillery, mortar, and counter rocket that were used to protect the airport from rockets.
“We elected to keep those systems in operation up until the very last minute. It was a complex procedure and time-intensive procedure to break down those systems. So we demilitarize those systems so that they will never be used again.”