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Kabul : A military helicopter equipped with surveillance cameras and machine guns crashed during a training flight in Kandahar’s southern sector, according to the Taliban.
According to Tolo News, a spokesman for the Ministry of Defense, Inayatullah Khwarazmi, stated the crash was caused by technical difficulties and that two pilots were injured.
“The helicopter has been destroyed after it crashed. Although our pilots have been harmed, no one has died. One of the pilots is doing well, while the other is in serious trouble “He expressed himself.
A video of the incident had been circulating on social media earlier. According to Tolo News, the chopper was evacuating civilians trapped in the water in Kandahar’s Maiwan district. An MD-530 helicopter costs over a million dollars. Former military personnel have urged the Islamic Emirate to recruit former pilots and mechanics to operate the aircraft.
“The misuse of this equipment is, in fact, a crime. Due to financial constraints, we may not be able to purchase the current equipment as a country “Hekmatullah Hekmat, a military veteran, expressed his thoughts.
“If untrained people utilise military equipment, it (equipment) will be damaged,” warned Sadeq Shinwari, a military analyst, according to Tolo News.
According to reports from August, the Taliban was supplying Pakistan with a large quantity of American weapons captured from the Afghan Army. According to The New York Times, US weapons, which were taken by the Taliban after American troops left, are being openly sold in shops by Afghan gun dealers who paid government soldiers and Taliban members for firearms and ammo.
The equipment was originally handed to the Afghan security forces under a US training and assistance programme, which had cost American taxpayers more than USD 83 billion over the course of two decades of conflict, according to the report.
The Taliban collected a considerable amount of weaponry when the US troops left Afghanistan. According to the New York Times, the Pentagon had previously stated that advanced equipment had been disabled when forces left, but thousands of weapons remained available to the Taliban.