The US left about $7 billion worth of military equipment in Afghanistan after the 2021 withdrawal, including aircraft and weapons, a Pentagon report says
This equipment is now in a country that is controlled by the very enemy the US was trying to drive out over the past two decades: the Taliban. The Defense Department has no plans to return to Afghanistan to"retrieve or destroy" the equipment, reads the report, which has been provided to Congress.The US gave a total of $18.6 billion of equipment to the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces from 2005 to August 2021, according to the report. Of that total, equipment worth $7.
The US has also transferred over 15 million rounds of Ball rifle ammunition, over 99,000 40mm high-explosive/fragmentation grenade cartridges, and about 119,000 82mm high-explosive mortar rounds to Ukraine from material that was previously procured for Afghanistan, the report states.These munitions have been transferred to Ukraine under presidential drawdown authority, the report states.US military equipment and weapons left behindAircraft worth $923.3 million remained in Afghanistan.
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