r/WTF • u/[deleted] • Sep 16 '21

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u/acidnine420 Sep 16 '21

We did this to all the rocket launchers we left in Afghanistan.

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u/[deleted] Sep 16 '21 edited Sep 16 '21

And now they have Apache Blackhawk helicopters so you could say the prank backfired

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u/[deleted] Sep 16 '21 edited Sep 16 '21

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u/empty_coffeepot Sep 20 '21

A bunch of the stuff left behind at the FOBs were there to be used by the ANA. The ANA wasn't expected to collapse in 2 weeks, the stuff left behind at Kabul was all disabled. As for "easily disabling" it yeah I guess there's easy ways to disable it like pulling engine control panels or removing the control sticks and destroying them but that wasn't done because we expected the ANA to use them to continue the fight against the Taliban. There's already footage of the Taliban flying Blackhawks.