The Afghan Army Is Still Using Soviet Era Tanks In Their War Against The Taliban

Afghan Army's Rusty Tank Relics Still Roll Into Battle -- Stars and Stripes

KABUL — With a collective belch of black smoke, the line of old Soviet tanks rattles to life. No two vehicles have the same fading paint scheme, and some still feature the insignia of Afghanistan’s communist government of the 1980s.

Fenders are bent and rusted. In the treads of one tank are the tangled coils of the last barbed-wire fence it drove through. Amid the haze and the clanking of metal tracks, the hulking machines barely look ready to drive around the block, let alone fight a war.

Once a common fixture of the Soviet invasion and, later, the civil war between the Taliban and the Northern Alliance, tanks are now only rarely used in today’s unconventional war in Afghanistan.

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My Comment: After spending a trillion dollars on the Afghan war .... this is what the Afghan army is left with in fighting the Taliban ?!?!?!?!