greencobra
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i was watching a couple of vids today of bloggers traveling to Afghanistan for a "vacation". in other words to have a look around. i didn't think i'd post about it so i trashed the links to share. i'm just here mentioning the weaponry the taliban and isis guys were toting around which was mostly american, more so than the expected combloc stuff. wonder how much stuff was picked up when the americans left and how much was battlefield pick ups. lots of m16 rifles. i expected m4's mostly but tons of m16's. maybe stuff our government supplied the afghan army? dunno. if a truck rolled by with taliban fighter on it with 8 guys, 6 were outfitted with american gear. the other 2 guys the expected ak's. a lot of vehicles had saw's on mounts fixed to the cab of the truck and no shortage of ammo. crates of the stuff. looks like marine and army desert camo uniforms is the taliban dress of the moment. topped with nike hi tops.
these 2 bloggers, both were british, went to black market malls. american weapons for sale of all makes. and not just military grade. not the stuff they're manufacturing in the hills either. the blogger mentioned he was surprised to hear some sketchy guys his interpreter id'd as isis inquiring about "bump stocks." i don't know what that was about. but tons of cool stuff anyone could walk in and buy...no questions. maybe when n.h. falls, afghanistan will be the new firearms freedom destination. but rifles, both russian and american with some european union stuff in the mix. machine guns, mostly saw's and russian light squad weapons. dragunov's?? is that the russian guns name? pistols of many flavor, bunches of m92's, some sigs, loads of russian and commie block mak's. one guy had a showcase of several smith mod 10's. 38 sp ammo must be hard to come by there i would expect unless some mountain dude and his friends are reloading as a cottage industry. most of the guns came with holsters. and plenty of misc. military gear.
they dove by and tried to film the best they could, rows and rows of us military vehicles at 2 separate former bases. don't know if they were operational, didn't see any out and about in the vids. and the airport had quite a few military aircraft parked about. i saw many c-130's lined up row upon row. as well as helicopters. i don't know my choppers but i can recognize a huey. and attack gun ships, maybe apaches and cobras, not up on those. didn't see any big 2 bladed helicopters in the mix. the british guy said he was told the aircraft were not flyable (maybe because of no parts) but he saw several in the air while he was there and filmed an attack chopper in the air. a very good couple of vids these were considering half had to be filmed with the camera out of sight. i'll try and locate them again, these 2 specific ones. but i'm sure there are more of similar content out there. nothing we probably already didn't know but interesting nonetheless.
these 2 bloggers, both were british, went to black market malls. american weapons for sale of all makes. and not just military grade. not the stuff they're manufacturing in the hills either. the blogger mentioned he was surprised to hear some sketchy guys his interpreter id'd as isis inquiring about "bump stocks." i don't know what that was about. but tons of cool stuff anyone could walk in and buy...no questions. maybe when n.h. falls, afghanistan will be the new firearms freedom destination. but rifles, both russian and american with some european union stuff in the mix. machine guns, mostly saw's and russian light squad weapons. dragunov's?? is that the russian guns name? pistols of many flavor, bunches of m92's, some sigs, loads of russian and commie block mak's. one guy had a showcase of several smith mod 10's. 38 sp ammo must be hard to come by there i would expect unless some mountain dude and his friends are reloading as a cottage industry. most of the guns came with holsters. and plenty of misc. military gear.
they dove by and tried to film the best they could, rows and rows of us military vehicles at 2 separate former bases. don't know if they were operational, didn't see any out and about in the vids. and the airport had quite a few military aircraft parked about. i saw many c-130's lined up row upon row. as well as helicopters. i don't know my choppers but i can recognize a huey. and attack gun ships, maybe apaches and cobras, not up on those. didn't see any big 2 bladed helicopters in the mix. the british guy said he was told the aircraft were not flyable (maybe because of no parts) but he saw several in the air while he was there and filmed an attack chopper in the air. a very good couple of vids these were considering half had to be filmed with the camera out of sight. i'll try and locate them again, these 2 specific ones. but i'm sure there are more of similar content out there. nothing we probably already didn't know but interesting nonetheless.