A U.S. general says the U.S. military defused several aircraft and armored vehicles, as well as a state-of-the-art rocket defense system, at Kabul airport before departure on Monday.
General Kenneth McKenzie, the head of Central Command, said that 73 planes were already at Hamid Karzai International Airport before the evacuation was completed in two weeks after the Taliban took over Afghanistan. 'Unarmed' or become useless.
"Those planes will never be able to fly again and no one will ever be able to fly them."
At the same time, he said, most of them are able to start with non-missions, but they will certainly never be able to fly again.
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He said the Pentagon had formed a force of about 6,000 troops to manage and operate Kabul airport after the airlift began on August 14.
It has released about 70 MRAP armed tactical vehicles valued at ڈالر 1 million each, but these vehicles and 27 (High Mobility Multi Purpose Wheeled Vehicle) Homeways have been decommissioned.
The United States has also abandoned the CRAM, a rocket, shelling and bombardment prevention system used to protect airports from rocket attacks.
The system helped intercept five rockets fired by ISIS at Kabul Airport on Monday.
"We decided to keep this system in place until the last minute before the last American plane took off," McKenzie said.
"Opening and dismantling these systems is a very complex and time consuming task, so we demilitarized them so that no one can use them again."
