What is the most shops on the streets of Afghanistan? Not to sell food or to wear, but to sell weapons! There are four or five convenience stores on a street in other countries, and four or five weapons stores on a street in Afghanistan!
These weapons stores, selling real guns and live ammunition, from pistols to rifles, from artillery to bazookas, from machine guns to rockets, as long as you want, the budget is enough, the owner drives an armored car out of the backyard in minutes, delivers it on the spot, and drives straight away!
And the reason why this spectacle appears in the streets and alleys of Afghanistan is the "credit" of the old beauty, if this land is an "imperial cemetery", then these weapons that can be seen everywhere are the "funeral goods" of the empire!
The war in Afghanistan, probably one of the most famous and highest-profile wars in the world in modern times, is notable because of the names of the warring sides and the elusive flow of the war.
As the world's top military superpower, the old United States can be said to have puffed up enough energy before the start of the war, and all mobilization and preliminary preparations have not fallen, looking at the momentum, it can be said that it wants to destroy Afghanistan in one fell swoop and completely kill the country.
As a Middle East country with imperfect development, Afghanistan's military strength is naturally one in the sky and one underground compared with the old United States, and from the perspective of paper strength, the military strength of the two is several big ladders behind.
Therefore, before the start of the Afghan war, most military experts in the world predicted that the US military would sweep Afghanistan like a storm in a very short time and reproduce the glory of the "Gulf War".
But the subsequent war situation surprised everyone, and everyone did not expect that the Afghan war would be a full 20 years!
At the most anxious moment of the war, the US military even invested 100,000 troops in the Afghan battlefield, with a total of 800,000 troops and a total of more than 23,000 casualties.
At the same time, the military expenditure of the US military in the Afghan war is also rare in the world, and the old United States has invested more than 2.4 trillion US dollars, which is equivalent to sowing 300 million US dollars on the Afghan battlefield every day, and has been scattered for 20 years without interruption!
But in the end, the US military failed to achieve an absolute victory in Afghanistan, but had to choose to abandon the war because of the large amount of expenses dragging down the domestic economy.
If the US military taught the world how to fight modern wars in a Gulf War, then the Afghan War is a scar that the old United States will never want to open.
On August 30, 2021, the last U.S. military withdrew from Afghanistan as promised, leaving a huge amount of military weapons and materiel on the land.
There are two main reasons why Lao Mei did not choose to completely take these equipment away.
First, in order to maintain the secrecy and speed of the evacuation operation, if the base is dismantled with great fanfare, and all kinds of weapons and equipment are brazenly carried onto the transport vehicle, it is difficult to ensure that the enemy troops on the side will not launch a sudden attack, resulting in the loss of personnel and weapons.
The second is the problems in the United States itself, the old United States is essentially a huge military-industrial complex, military enterprises have a great right to speak, since it is an enterprise, then it is necessary to make money, what is done does not go to the new does not come, if the US military is so "thrifty" and brings back all the weapons, then how can these enterprises make money?
Therefore, even if some US troops want to take these weapons out of Afghanistan, they are bound to encounter a lot of resistance, and in the end, they can only give up and flee Afghanistan in a hurry, showing such a "loser" scene.
Therefore, the number of weapons left in Afghanistan by the old United States is absolutely beyond your imagination.
With the withdrawal of the last US troop, the 20-year Afghan war officially ended, but when the Afghan people burst into tears and cheered and beat drums to celebrate, they suddenly found that the old American "guy thing" did not seem to have moved away at all!
The last batch of airports to evacuate the US military is called Kabul Airport, and at this airport alone, the old United States left nearly 80 helicopter-based aircraft!
In addition to airplanes, there are also a large number of US armored vehicles and military off-road vehicles stored in the airport, and the "rich" old beauty actually did not take a single one!
In addition to these military vehicles, the internal facilities of the airport also store a large number of individual weapons and ammunition, rifles, rocket launchers, mortars, it is simply an arsenal!
This sudden discovery made the Afghan militants who had just welcomed the victory ecstatic, and the US military withdrew on time according to the deadline given by itself, which has already allowed it to earn enough face, but I did not expect that the old United States also left such a "big gift"!
In sharp contrast to the elation of the Afghan side, the old beauty was completely blackfaced, they probably calculated the weapons and equipment that could not be taken away by this evacuation operation, and almost vomited blood directly!
During the 20-year Afghan war, the US military invested more than 100 billion in various weapons and equipment alone, including nearly 50,000 armored vehicles, military off-road vehicles, infantry fighting vehicles and other various types of military vehicles!
The value of the nearly 80 aircraft and nearly 10,000 anti-aircraft munitions left at Kabul airport alone is an astronomical sum for Afghanistan, even for the rich old United States, it is a big loss!
There are so many large pieces alone, and there are even more small weapons that are difficult to count, and only conservative estimates can be used, rifles, mortars, rocket launchers and other combat weapons have remained in Afghanistan in large quantities, at least 400,000!
In addition to these conventional weapons, all kinds of high-tech equipment have also been left in Afghanistan by the old United States, which is "not bad money", and radio equipment, radar equipment, infrared equipment, remote positioning equipment, bioscanning equipment, battlefield planning system devices and even demining and detonation systems are simply everything!
Seeing the "big gift package" left to him after the withdrawal of the old United States, the Afghan armed men were simply stunned, they never thought that they who could only use AK and bazookas, who could only use AK and bazookas, would one day actually have a full set of modern warfare equipment!
Of course, we all know how Lao Mei can "give" such rich equipment to a mortal enemy who has been fighting for a full twenty years for no reason, and the reason why these weapons will be abandoned here by the US military is not that they don't want to bring them, but that they can't take them away.
As mentioned earlier, at the beginning of the war, the old United States summoned up enough energy, dispatched a total of 800,000 troops and invested 2.4 trillion US dollars in sky-high military spending, wanting to replicate the Gulf War.
The final result is too much force, and when the reaction comes, the equipment in the hands of the US military is too redundant, and it is not at all possible to transport it in a while.
However, the transportation capacity and evacuation time are limited, there is no way, the old United States can only cut off a piece of its own meat, tearfully let Afghanistan pick up a big bargain.
In fact, the above mentioned a large number of weapons, only the Afghan personnel searched the inherent strongholds of the US military, after a brief calculation of the estimates, and later was found, from the US military "big guys", is a solid shock to the world!
After the withdrawal of the old United States, for the Afghans, what rifles and bazookas have become the most common weapons on the streets, after all, the number of these conventional individual weapons left by the old United States is nearly 400,000, and more than 1.6 million bullets and shells, with a total value of up to 50 million US dollars!
It is no exaggeration to say that if Afghanistan can make good use of the "legacy" left by the old United States, it may be able to directly soar its military strength to a level and make Afghanistan a top-ranked military power in the Middle East!
Because in addition to 400,000 conventional individual weapons, more than 1.6 million rounds of ammunition, and nearly 50,000 pieces of sophisticated equipment such as detection and communications, Lao Mei has also left a group of "big guys" in Afghanistan.
When it comes to Laomei's helicopter, most people's first thought should be "Black Hawk", that is, the UH-60 utility helicopter that enjoys a great name in the world.
That's right, in addition to the weapons and equipment mentioned above, Afghanistan even got the old American Black Hawk helicopter, but this is not left by the old United States, but Afghanistan captured in the previous war.
After all, even if Lao Mei can't take such a weapon, he will try to destroy it, and he will never leave it to his nemesis, so as not to have endless troubles.
The maximum flight speed of the Black Hawk can reach 357 kilometers per hour, the highest can be raised to an altitude of 5800 meters, the flight range has reached an astonishing 2220 kilometers, and the effective combat radius has come to a terrifying 592 kilometers, which is a weapon to control the battlefield.
The Black Hawk helicopter uses two turboshaft engines, each with a power of up to 1165 kilowatts, and even in the case of all the lubricating oil leaks, these two engines can run for more than half an hour, which is enough to prove its terrifying durability and fault tolerance, which is why the old United States deployed a large number of Afghan battlefields.
In terms of weapon systems, the Black Hawk is equipped with a 7.62mm 6-barreled Gatling gun, which is ferocious enough to effectively kill armored units, and can achieve a crushing level advantage against living forces.
At the same time, as a general-purpose helicopter, the Black Hawk is not only capable of entering combat, but also partially performing the functions of a transport aircraft, and the sling hook located in the belly of the aircraft is capable of lifting more than 4 tons of cargo, which is enough for transporting military off-road vehicles.
In addition to the prestigious "Black Hawk", Afghan armed personnel also obtained the "Super Tucacan" A-29 attack aircraft from the US military, which is also an extremely fierce weapon and one of the most popular light attack aircraft in the world, which was transported by the United States to Afghanistan to carry out aerial reconnaissance, ground attack and other missions.
With a weight of up to 1,500 kilograms and a flight time of up to 7 hours, the Super Tucano is a formidable battlefield killer.
In addition to the Black Hawk and Super Tucacan, Afghan fighters also received a large number of Javelin anti-tank missiles from the US military.
Whether it is the Black Hawk, the Super Tucacan, or the Javelin, it used to be the pride of Lao Mei, and it was also the source of its confidence to dare to send troops to Afghanistan unscrupulously, but now Lao Mei hopes that these weapons will immediately become a pile of scrap iron, because they are all in Afghanistan's hands.
After driving out the old United States, Afghanistan ushered in a short and rare peace, and the large number of weapons left by the old United States not only enhanced its military strength, but also left a legacy that could only be slowly eradicated.