They have around 200 airplanes and helicopters
The British newspaper The Telegraph just ran a story which looked at the Taliban’s windfall gain in military equipment left behind by the Americans.
“Taliban now has access to $85 billions of American military equipment,” said the headline. “As the US makes an emergency exit from Afghanistan, it leaves behind 75,000 vehicles, 200 airplanes and helicopters and 600,000 small arms.”
A former US Navy reservist, Jim Banks, gave a speech in Washington in which he said that the Taliban now have a vast amount of equipment, which includes 75,000 vehicles, 200 airplanes and helicopters and 600,000 small arms and light weapons, the newspaper reported.
“The Taliban now has more Black Hawk helicopters than 85 per cent of the countries in the world,” he said.
The Afghan National Army had a total of 220 fighter jets and helicopters, but according to Afghan media, the number of planes and helicopters in Afghanistan since the Taliban took over is only 160 because the rest of the helicopters and Afghan Air Force personnel flew to neighboring countries and the planes are still parked at those airports.
Most of the Afghan Taliban have experience in guerrilla warfare and even as a regular army, but like the previous regime, they have not used planes or helicopters.
