Why Would the US Army Purchase Russian Helicopters?  

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@@NotWhatYouThink XD.I guess it's not what we think 🤔

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*Talibidens

Their flight school only teaches you to land once

@@chilotheking689 The servicemen and women that work on these aircraft mention the frequent maintenance and specialized parts needed to keep them operational. Even if they have perfectly trained operators, these aircraft will need new and specialized parts, tools, computers, and highly trained mechanics to fly for more than a week. They just aren’t built for cheap maintenance and operation in mind.

@@explosivemallard8038 still wasted money

Over throw the tyranny

What they left behind if nothing compared to the cost of a fake 20 year war for power in the middle East disguised as a war on terror. Americans may regret it now but I remember the screams of freedom fries and all the other chest puffing bull that went on. The government may be to blame but the majority of the populous cheered it on sadly.

All military spending is money thrown away and people killed...

@@sayingnigromakesyoutubecry2647 when they could just spend that money on health care

@@souralba2727 Exactly.

Politics.

Sanction them

South Korea actually got a Bunch of BMP-3's

You cant buy russian, chinese or north korean import firearms, but we give them millions in taxpayer money, yeah ok thank gobement, thanks atf, you guys really pulled through for our best interests on all fronts.

@@JeanLucCaptain India bought s-400 from Russia

Yup. Big arsenals worth millions of $ were left behind. Vehicle fleets, worth millions were left behind. I've heard that they also left behind some choppers. Pretty stupid decision imho.

@@kunjupulla which most were scrambled and left beyond repair

But imagine they left bombs to detonate after months to cause panic lol just imagine

Not millions. 80 BILLION

@@hairybelly9910 that is the amount Elon musk makes in a year stop crying

Ngl, I would much rather pay to give them old Russian aircraft then new American aircraft.

The question here is that they don't want taliban to have American tech, they don't them to know hot to use or to destroy them, and having their own American choppers would give them that, which just happened

Cuz we can give them terrible old age helicopters instead of our sexy advanced American ones

Herpa derpa Cause China be asking to purchase them from the Taliban. Whatchu tink, mang?

@@johnnytarerio3186 but why was that even an option????

Not true. They use American vehicles that they dress up to look Russian or Chinese Edit: in direct response to the original comment. They, the US military, does not use captured or bought Russian aircraft or vehicles in training environments. It’s extremely impractical. They modify American vehicles and aircraft. They might buy and fly in other scenarios, but not in training in the manner of which the op is talking about.

@@Dogonatree it's true. But those are different to these. They're flown by US servicemen. For training exercises

@@Dogonatree He's actually right, there are a few hinds and and a mi-8, there has even been a instance of us pilots flying in combat with afghan pilots

@@Dogonatree for aerial use Opfor does use captured/found/bought ex soviet equipment. An American flying a hind gotban aerial kill on a jet once

@@mostlymessingabout the US military would not send its pilots to a school to learn how to fly Russian planes. It’s not feasible, you’d have to have a whole unit of pilots and support. As soon as their rotation was done they’d have to go learn how to fly US aircraft, or vice versa. Let alone teaching the pilots and mechanics Russian. I guarantee they don’t fly Russian aircraft in any sort of permanent or frequent fashion. Op4 helicopters are civilian aircraft painted in enemy patterns. I know this from first hand experience. Again, not for training

Well to be fair the Soviets left a fuck tone of weapons and munitions when they left too. So they had Russian tech for decades.

Hehe yep!

@LoveMe 🔞⤵️ haha no

who???? only one side loser in last 20 years

America left all of that cash so that contractors can come in and fix the equipment they left for the Taliban.

Always have been

hey at least they only have helis and not zircons

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Yeah, when he says that something isn't what we think, what comes in our minds when he says that, isn't what we think either.

@@masonallison8657 haha, no, I can count on the fingers of one foot the number of times he has said "but it's not what you think," and the thing it's not was what I was thinking it was!! 😂

@@phineascampbell3103 lol

I was still thinkin about some of the hysterical things the hyper guy who yells while making mayonnaise cakes & vinegar pies said in the last two shorts when this video started. USA giving my tax money to a country that imprisons gay men and is about to invade Ukraine again was no where close to where my mind was when this short began.

@@trickwillis dunno who that is, lol

Do you mean? It is in the video, it was made after the withdraw

Billions

Billions* Let's go Brandon :)

Millions of Billions

I know right! Let's go brandon!

Biden

They're not US military grade Blackhawks. They're Export models.

How many actually were captured because I saw only one blackhawk that work and could fly

@@alqaeda7040 if I remember correctly between 14 to 17.

They'll never be able to maintain them or fly them for any length of time. You give a caveman a machine-gun he's still a caveman

@@igotanM16 " Military grade " is such a bad term to use that I don't even know where to begin with

Must be a kinda scary situation, Think you for your service bro I try to tell everyone I see this.💪🏻💪🏻

Bro I think I've seen you comment on before, It was a very similar comment about being in Afghanistan, idk if you'd remember my reply but it was James Ashford or Random and entertain Ning videos, (I lost my google account for those)

But it’s not what you think

@@jjjrjjjr1 wHAT

Thats odd

@@sukaenacornelius9285 well the last time Afghanistan's education system worked was under a soviet puppet

@@apotato5567 at least it worked 😆 nowadays there isn't even an education system there.

@@HATCH5T yeah

Sadly no argument in the replied just the harsh reality

If Afghanistan can't sustain itself then it isnt the place of the US to be world police

@@xavier1964 well there go are gas prices

@@xavier1964 I know. It's just sad to see. I had a teacher in the National Guard, got sent over back in the day. Its like the sacrifice men like him made all mounted up to nothing. But what do I know? I'm just a specialist waiting to be sent wherever they need us next.

@@sethtavendar3527 That's Iraq. Afghanistan was more of a power projection. Still, the experiment of those politicians failed. Wait a minute- 2009-2016? Oh... that makes sense. 🙄

@@Foreign0817 2009-2020* Trump had plenty of time to fix it and all he did was set up Biden for failure

Yea the 1970s outdated death traps are muuccchh better than unarmed fast transport helis that get guarded by modern attack helis

@@bigshrimp6458 the mi24 is only a death trap if you have sams, wich make any helicopter into a death trap

And here I was worrying so much about how the Russian choppers signal the beginning of excessive spending by our government, but I feel much better knowing that it's nothing new and we were already bleeding ourselves dry. We don't have to worry because the people in charge know you can just keep printing as much money as you want and use it to buy oil from other countries so that our own stays in the ground where it belongs

Fr fr

Me too

Yeah

Haha yup but that’s also why I didn’t think Russia would ever actually sell anything to a NATI country and especially not the US haha

@@lukycharms9970 turkey bought S-400

@@princeo15 and for that they were kicked out from the F-35 program.

Where have you been, America funds and supports, ISIS...

They were expecting it

@@المهديخاتلبالمجاري Yep that sounds about right!

@@المهديخاتلبالمجاري Most people were. 🤦‍♂️🤷‍♂️

Bro the pfp 😂😂😂

Lol

Black market gun seller: (slaps roof er box,) bro you remember that French rifles deal my grandpa made, well this guy surrendered so quickly they didn't even take the rifles out of box!!

Hol up-

They were only ever trained and excersised to work alongside hitech, hi dollar Americans and equipment. They were set up to fail.

XDD

Why?

How is that worse?

@@sumpogimpo0777 Because Afghanistan is back in the hands of the talibiden.

@@Solisium-Channel it was before the Taliban regained control

@@sumpogimpo0777 The Talibiden are afghans though. They had been dispersed but their original nationality is afghan. Now terrorists and extremists are flocking into the country from all over. It's a terror paradise thanks to Talibiden that can't wait to receive their 72 gays lol

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The army also uses the Hind at the NTC.

I thank you for ur service I’m hoping to enlist in the marine corps after high school

All I can say is thank you guys for your service. because of people like you I'm able to live my life as I see fit in a free country even this country isn't soo free anymore and even though our a-hole president wants to strip us all from our constitutional rights as we speak.

@@richardsalinetrojr1957 don’t blame it all on him, also trump for taking what you guys think that’s freedom.

Yo if I saw a hind come at me over the horizon, I'd just shit my pants

They put way too much faith in the Afghan military, who then proceeded to be wiped out within a few hours.

Arming the Taliban, they did what they planned. Don't fall for the bumbling incompetence ruse, politicians have used it far too long to get away with diabolical schemes.

Well, what was America's business in Afghanistan on the first place Now you know the answer

Because they are also the enemy, the enemy within!

Which enemy? USA created the Talibans years ago buddy. Did the same with ISIS. Create a rebel group, train and arm them, and then they go rogue.

No American owned aircraft were left behind that were operational. A US General said that. The 39 billion dollars in equipment that was in Afghanistan belonged to the Afghan government. We sold it to them over 20 years to bolster their security forces. The US government gave them 4 billion a year in aid with the condition they would purchase US equipment, training and other US goods and services. So that taxpayer money could flow right into the coffers of the likes of Boeing and Raytheon. Also back into them politicians pockets and the American workers who built that stuff. Yes it was US made equipment but it was not ours to take. The best plane they got was an A29 AirCobra. Basically a late 20th century P51. A bunch of used BlackHawks. You think we sold them new ones? The only reason any of us have to fear any of that equipment is if we plan on going back. Even then US would blow every aircraft out of the sky or on the ground on the first day. The first thing we do is establish air superiority. That way we can fly drones with impunity. The biggest thing would be the small arms and ammunition. And the Taliban had plenty of that anyways. Just think how long them M4s are going to last in the dust and dirt when they do not clean them religiously. They are used to AKs. The worry you imply is just a scare tactic of the media.

Long live iea

@@shawnr771 yeah right A US military general also once said "We didn't lose, we just couldn't win" You seriously trust that?

@@shawnr771 a US general said that just for a follow up of the Taliban flying and operating US vehicles

@@maxrequisite They were US made but sold to the Afgan government.

Who cares?

@@afkgreg I wouldn't be so rude on the net. Unless you want me to remind you of your IP and maybe DDos attack your router.

@@afonsomiguel3832 lmao says the one literally threatening someone for sharing there opinion

@@catioicat727 their* also who cares isn't an opinion.

I belive they shot some of the internals as I think that's what I saw from a black hawk with the nose up But I really wouldent worry about those aircraft flying again...granted they did miss a few as we saw but even then the taliban (currently) lacks the training, pilots, fuel,parts and maintenance to keep them in the air for long I'm honestly more concerned with the weapons and ammo laying around

Yeah.. Lets see. Blackhawk can carry troops like Mi-17, but can't carry small vehicle inside it like Mi-17.

nope, the Blackhawk can not even take the same troops. Mi - 17 can take 24 fully armed and ready paratroops, can you say that about Blackhawk? by the way, yeah I was working on 17's I know what I am talking about ;)

And also a lot cheaper and faster to repair than American ones

Blackhawk is much cheaper (at least for the UH-60L variant), costing $6 million per unit. Mi-17 costs about $16 million per unit if we compare it to the Chinook, Chinook can carry about twice the payload or personnel, but it costs at least $60 million per unit.

@@henryhamilton4087 also the Chinook can't act as a fully capable attack helicopter

Yea, it can carry paratroopers, even small vehicles, but the ejection seat on Kamov blew my mind

No, russian industrial military complex is not privat. Its state owned. Thats also a reason why russian equipment costs much less than americans for example.

@@Iskandr314 No it was private but the Russian state is buying up all of them. Theyre basically not taking any orders until the companies face bankruptcy and then the state buys them out.

@@Iskandr314 nop they were private only recently has the gorvenment been buying them out.

First of all, in the UdSSR it was state owned wich is very obvious, after the fall of the udssr there was Chaos of course and just about everything was private and everyone tried to survive. After some years russia bought them piece by piece and merged more and more industries. So what specific firm you talk about? You should really look into rostec wich owns about 80 % of the russian military industry as far as I know

I'm from India and looking into my history.... Yeah

America funds apartheid racist nazi state of Israel

Actually we live in a globalized world so if you cant digest that so go back to caves is that what you want

@@ravineshsingh3033 we have too many problems here to spend any money on other peoples problems would you give someone else you don't know the last $100 in your bank account even if you needed it for your bills

We left some of our stuff there also 🤣

ANA was supposed to put out a fight remember?

oh yeah they didn’t even use a Humvee

It's not like they're going to get much use out of them.

They have only basic equipment, battle rifles only use in training is little effect in an actual battlefield. But their important component were removed so their easily get jam to the elements Important parts of helicopters such as navigation system and fire control system were removed. Making them just fly.

If I were the Afghanistan right now, I'd prefer if the US left behind food instead.

@@kGb1783 Russian stuff will be usable, they're probably just gonna scrap Blackhawks, too expensive

The taliban can be a strong force in the near future when you think about it. They cultivate lots of heroin. They start making serious economic moves and start attacking weaker countries or save enough for ballistic missiles from North Korea we might have to go back there, because of these fools who let them back in power instead of eradicating all of them. It wasn't gonna end with bin Laden or Mullah Omar. Fuckin military in Afghanistan just gave up after all the help we gave them. At least blow all that shit up so nobody gets it!🤦

theyve been flying them around afghanistan, look trained to me

@@twinturbo5212 yea, the book to train a pilot is fairly short, the books to train a mechanic is 17 databases long

Everyone else has had an empire (which collapsed), America wants a turn. Trouble is, empires are way out of fashion. I know, cheap version.. It's all about protecting and advancing national interest by expanding sphere of influence. America probably does as much of this by economic means as any other players, just that America is also a bit hawkish as well.

War is the most profitable industries there is for the military industrial complex, extremely profitable for the fossil fuel industry, Afghanistan has boat loads of SUPER cheap opium for big pharma, huge reserves of mineral deposits for mining / resource extraction... And a tiny group of people make the VAAAAAST share of the profit. Plus... all the HOGS get to go brrrrrrrrrrrrrr... 🤷‍♂️

@@bootstraphan6204 you hit the nail on the head

Mostly opium, and there was always an interest in Afghanistan, Soviets went there, British went there, we went there… and all empires share one thing, they all failed.

Really a religion that teaches kill everyone that doesn’t follow our book 100% has been in conflict for as long as that book?

Pause maybe I should say….

It's called war agenda investment

@@ragileksbean you just put some words together to sound intelligent 🤓

@@petahoee8281 yes I am 😁

Americas been doing it since it became a country. As long as business thrives in the US, it is ok letting thousands die for fake wars

@@TheFrencky what about war is fake? Just wanna see if you have any weight to your comment or if you're just spouting out somebody else's shit

Which they obviously didn't need... since they managed to take down the govt without it.

@@rurome2151 US won on the battlefield but lost the political war there is no denying that, look at the casualties not even 10k dead Americans the whole war vs one million dead Middle Easterners lol.

@@ballsdeep9400 We may have achieved our initial objective, but we partnered with a corrupt Afghan govt that sabotaged much of the efforts.

@@ballsdeep9400 10k it was alot more than that. There was alot of private guns for hire who died. But their deaths don't get included in the media that's the U.S increased the amount of mercenaries they had serving in Afghanistan. It was a political paradise.

And murdering 13 troops because he's selfish and dosen't want trump to win its sad tbh

Lol you mean thank you TRUMP BIDEN was no where in that purchase

No I mean thank you BIDEN for not doing something that is common sense pick up after your self don't leave your toys sitting around otherwise SoMeOnE wIlL sTeAl them.

@@RemissPLAYA1 no president has ever done that WHY ? its too expensive lol

Total withdrawal is exactly what Americans wanted this whole time and now that its done, everyone has suddenly become a chickenhawk. Everyone from Obama to Trump to Biden campaigned about how they’re gonna bring the troops home. The people of this country can’t ever decide or be satisfied. What a disgrace.

what is that garbage decal on your pfp omegalul

@@wgcdrelliot8989 what is that attitude

"omegalul"

Just to be taken by Talibans lmao

@@wgcdrelliot8989 wow you really said omegalul unironically

Lol cry harder

@@zombiejelly4111 people are literally dying

@@isaacgeorge7773 okay and? Nothing will stop people from dying…maybe you need to grow up

@@isaacgeorge7773 healthcare is cheap as fuck btw. I get full coverage for literally 17cents a week. Use your brain

@@zombiejelly4111 healthcare, social services... not spending billions of dollars a year on killing people...

Why

What's the Russian equivalent?

@@GregHali Mil mi 26

The Chinook is an incredibly capable and versatile aircraft

@@glenns3122 Yes it is, but doesnt have same missions as the mi 17

The right has even less right to complain about this for supporting this war.

You should also be thanking Bush for starting the war, and Obama and Trump for continuing it.....wasting trillions of taxpayer dollars on a bullshit vendetta and killing countless Americans and Afgans. Who gives a shit who ended it. I am just happy it's done. (Also, the military and its contractors leave shit behind all the time; this isn't abnormal at all. The US is corrupt af)

US companies and military contractors: "who cares....??? We're rich!! We should buy... no "donate" to both parties candidates in the future to give us more juicy wars"

No doubt the choppers are good for heavy lift but they fall out of the skies like rocks. Every year about 10 crash all over the world. Last year alone the choppers have killed more servicemen than any other chopper. India, Kenya e.t.c

@@dallasdandy6276 actually in India it was due to bad weather most likely no the helicopter malfunctioning

@@mightyrb2602 They always say that. Look at it's crash history. They always claim bad weather to protect export sales but anyone in aviation will tell you that you just don't blindly fly in bad weather. There are protocols and worse is the aircraft is grounded until weather is favorable. Besides as a multi role airlift I would expect it to handle itself in bad weather. This are just my opinions, I'm no military expert but it just don't make sense to me.

@@dallasdandy6276 could be that the pilots in india and kenya aren't trained as well and do not follow protocols as strictly..

@@derrickware7816 You might be right, but judging by documented accidents though I wouldn't say it isnt pilot error. If it was just in a particular region/country then your statement would have had some weight but it seems it's all over the world. No way all those pilots had insufficient training of the aircraft. All 3rd world countries too with a few exceptions. From Macedonia, Pakistan, S.Sudan, Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Poland. Kinda begs the question why most exports of the choppers were made to these countries. Probably Russia built a cheap airlift to export to these countries but with it came at a greater cost too. Loss of life.

too bad Taliban don't celebrate Christmas

This was not organized under Brandon but that would be funny

That was Obama In 2013 to be used in Afghanistan. Cheaper than using our air support.

Trump broke the relations and set it up…

Bro shut up, Trump started the withdrawal that you hated so so much. We also needed to get out of Afghanistan anyway because it’d been 20 fucking years. And stop censoring yourself.

Trump's signature was on the orders to pull out. The first year of any presidency is 90%, what the last guy ordered in his last year. But thanks for trying to make our defense a political football. Very anti-American. very sad.

Let's go Brandon

Trump was going to pull out, correct. But he was going to approach everything with caution. Unlike our current fake president that left billions of dollars of good equipment there for taliban to take advantage of. Smh.

@@whatthefunkingmcshit one thing to pull out, whole other beast on how you do it. And don't wave the whole righteous un American B's. For four years the previous president was attacked on everything from the size of his hands to his taste for diet coke. Stop being so unamerican bruh

@@mynameisinigomontoya8179 being anti trump is not anti American and the fact you think those are the same is scary. You might be in a cult of personality.

Sarcasm with another level bro...

Tf you on about

First, there’s nothing magic about the Blackhawk. It’s a helicopter. Other countries have those two. China even produces their own clones of the Blackhawk already. Second, the equipment left behind almost all belonged to the ANA, not the US military, meaning America didn’t “leave it behind”, it wasn’t theirs to take in the first place.

Because a Soviet helicopter design over 60 years in service is clearly something the rest of the world is desperate to have access to /s

🤦‍♂️ you know Trump ordered the leaving of US troops ? How comes you Americans don't even know your own Politics

Its more then just technology advances your nation has to have the means to make the things as well Australia is pretty advanced for a nation that was one of the last born (150 odd years after USA founded) But we still import alot of arms as we don't have the industrial to pump out stuff like Germany Russia and America Hell in the 80s we used leopard a1 tanks from German and we have bought a handful 20/30 f35 fighters although we have designed and produced planes. Sure we could steal a plane and replicate it easy enough but mass production of said thing is another story. We have a ok economy and our biggest export is munitions and a Australian/Austrian Steyr Aug They made the orgnial Aug we made it better and now import it to 7 other nations other then that all our ground naval and air equipment is either from united kingdom or American. Mostly UK stuff as we are part of the British Commonwealth

shoulda thunk of that before .

Lotta use they gonna do after they break down non stop

joe who ?

Funnily enough Trump started all of this. Biden just finished the job.

@@trumpalumpa9368 Yes and Trump did right, because It is waste of taxes. it is literally feeding afghans

@@drdavidstr So just to make clear: When biden does it it‘s bad, and when trump does it it‘s suddendly good? Are you two just following a cult leader or do you actually have own opinions? Only thing I see is that someone fucked up and another someone kept fucking up after taking office because there was no real backup plan from the beginning. Ps: But hey, atleast biden is just an old senile pedo, not a manchild that regularly throws tantrums, openly supports terrorists and has a red nuclear button ready at all times Go america, one day you will reach civilisation where presidens are just boring normal people doing their job 🇪🇺

@@drdavidstr Trump started the withdraw lol

@ElChivo 105 you don't get the joke?

@ElChivo 105 I believe all these "thanks Biden" in the comment section suppose to be sarcastic so he didn't really mean the "thanks" :)

@ElChivo 105 cause he was probably told it was Bidens fault or ppl round him/her don't like Biden so it's thanks Biden 😂🤣 bush left stuff over there Obama left stuff over there Trump left stuff over there just like other wars.... Thanks Biden I mean the movies like death triangle (whatever it's called) or gun runners( or that one with Nicholas cage selling weapons) all shows how countries rather not spend the cash to bring em back so they all been leaving stuff but thanks Biden 😂

@@Jnco00412 they have all been leaving stuff? What??? The withdrawal didn’t happen under anyone else you listed so none of them left anything. The only dumbass responsible for leaving billions worth of military gear in the hands of the Taliban is Biden.

@@glenns3122 I was referring to multiple wars as in we left stuff behind in Vietnam/golf wars WW or other wars we've also been in... Also we've been pulling troops out for awhile now.... This is pretty much just the final pull out we have left things behind before or sorry it wasn't pulling out troops it was cutting down the force we had there the movie war Dogs where ppl got rich of selling the weapons shit or if you want to be technical it's even worse we sell our shit to them lol Obama was pulling troops out in 2016 tf??? And it was Trump that started pushing to get the rest of ppl out it just so happened to fall on Biden to withdraw em cause trumps time was up in office (granted I don't think Biden did it right) then again I'm not in his spot so idk what would of been the best way to go about it

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