Misc defence picture collection!

On February 14, 1989, the last Soviet armored personnel carrier left Kabul. Photo: The remnants of motor vehicles, aircraft and other weapons used during the Soviet war in Afghanistan.


A military equipment junkyard.



These junkyards cover an area of several dozen square kilometers north of Kabul.



Twenty years later, other soldiers are guarding this Kabul television tower, which was controlled by Soviet forces from the early 1980s and until 1989.

Russian veterans of that bygone war come here. Photo: The morgue of the 40th Soviet Army.



This derelict Red Crescent car carried wounded people in the late 1980s.

a lot of junk they had left!
chau

Kabul is devastated but its not all gone

Well I'd say that parts of it definitely look better than Old Delhi.

Kabul was once thriving city mainly have a love for country like India, especially for its Bollywood movies.

And more cleaner too !

It still does. It always will.

can anyone put light on the natural resources of afganistan except for huge reserves of uranium(reason for the US attack)

looks like it has a lot of scrap some one can buy

Yes Natural Gas

Afghanistan has a natural gas reserve, during the Soviet rule in Afghanistan the natural gas was exported to the USSR.

http://www.afghanistans.com/Information/NResources.htm

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Despite a lengthy history of small-scale mining of gems, gold, copper, and coal, systematic exploration of Afghanistan's mineral resources did not begin until the 1960s. In the 1970s Afghanistan was discovered to have a wide variety of mineral resources, but only coal, iron ore, copper ore, and gemstones were targeted for development. Natural gas fields are scattered throughout much of Afghanistan. Recent analysis by the United States Geological Survey has indicated significant unexploited oil reserves in the north as well. After their invasion of Afghanistan in 1979, the Soviets endeavored to export some of the country's resources to the USSR. Natural gas, for example, was exported by pipeline across the Amu Darya into the USSR in the 1980s. Ongoing hostilities, however, severely hampered this effort and finally cut off the natural gas export. By the mid-1990s there was little mineral or oil and gas extraction.

Another post on the forum deals with the Indian military being offered Chinook helicopters. Pretty handy flying machine.

Check this out..
Last year the US had been alerted to the fact that one of their local operatives who had been passing reliable information on the Taliban, had been compromised and was in need of rescue together with his family.

Here you see the awesome skill of the pilot and an example of what the Chinook can do.

That's an awesome picture of Chinook.

It's landing wheels (exit door) lands on the roof top.

Simply amazing.

Regards

Watch this video on the rare breaking of the arrester cable on the carrier back in 2003.
An F-18 comes in too fast and exceeds the breaking strain of the cable.
Watch the pilot eject just seconds from the water.
Scratch one F-18 worth millions.