Taliban acquire management of Mi-24 assault helicopter India had gifted Afghan forces

Amid the Taliban blitz in capturing Afghanistan, the fighters have claimed that they’ve gained management of an assault helicopter that was gifted by India. Taliban fighters pose with the captured assault helicopter.Amid the Taliban blitz in capturing Afghanistan, the fighters have claimed that they’ve gained management of an assault helicopter that was gifted by India.

The Taliban claimed it had taken management of an Mi-24 assault helicopter donated by India to the Afghanistan forces. Photographs and movies emerged from Kanduz in Afghanistan displaying Taliban fighters standing beside the helicopter.However, the rotor blades of the assault helicopter had been lacking and reviews have steered that the Afghan forces might have eliminated them earlier as a way to forestall the Taliban from utilizing the chopper.Video reportingly exhibits #Taliban captured Kunduz airport with #Afghanistan Air Force Mi-35 Hind assault helicopter pic.twitter.com/u7jZJdR800— Joseph Dempsey (@JosephHDempsey) August 11, 2021
Back in 2019, India gifted the Mi-24 assault helicopters to the Afghan Air Force together with three Cheetah gentle utility helicopters. The Mi-24 helicopters got to the Afghans as a substitute for 4 assault helicopters that had been gifted in 2015.The Taliban offensiveThe seize of the assault helicopters by the Taliban comes at a time when the Afghanistan management is struggling to combat again the onslaught of the insurgents. Taliban has now gained management of over 65% of Afghanistan territory with extra capital cities falling each day.On Thursday it was reported that the Taliban had captured a police headquarters in a provincial capital in southern Afghanistan.A day earlier than, the Taliban seized three extra Afghan provincial capitals and a neighborhood military headquarters to finish a blitz throughout the nation’s northeast, giving them management of two-thirds of the nation because the US and NATO started withdrawing their forces after a decade of battle.Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani is making an attempt to rally a counteroffensive counting on his nation’s particular forces, the militias of warlords and American airpower forward of the US and NATO withdrawal on the finish of the month.While the capital of Kabul itself has not been instantly threatened within the advance, the beautiful velocity of the offensive raises questions of how lengthy the Afghan authorities can keep management of the slivers of the nation it has left. The authorities might ultimately be pressured to tug again to defend the capital and just some different cities as 1000’s displaced by the preventing fled to Kabul and now stay in open fields and parks.(With inputs from Ashraf Wani and AP)Click right here for IndiaAt the moment.in’s full protection of the coronavirus pandemic.