Taliban fighters have seized £62billion worth of military equipment from Western forces including state-of-the-art helicopters and armoured vehicles as troops scrambled to withdraw from Afghanistan.
An eye-watering amount of US military inventory is now in the hands of the terror group after they surged across the war-torn nation in a matter of weeks, plundering stocks of weapons and vehicles.
The Taliban now has access to billions of pounds worth of equipment, including identification devices that could alarmingly help them identify Afghans who helped coalition forces many of whom remain stranded in Kabul.
The group now has “more Black Hawk helicopters than 85 per cent of the countries in the world”.
“Due to the negligence of this administration, the Taliban now has access to $85billion (£62billion) worth of military equipment,” he said.
With an estimated 85,000 soldiers, the Taliban managed to break the back of the much larger 300,000-strong Afghan Army.
And with each seized barracks and plundered military depot, the Taliban’s arsenal only grew as they obtained new toys abandoned by the surrendering Afghans.
Taliban militants now have their hands on hundreds of fixed-wing aircraft and tactical helicopters, tens of thousands of armoured vehicles, as well as hundreds of thousands of weapons.
