{"id":35928,"date":"2021-08-25T21:02:25","date_gmt":"2021-08-25T12:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/25\/taliban-capture-more-than-100-mi17-helicopters-afghan-armed-forces-russia-says"},"modified":"2021-08-25T21:02:25","modified_gmt":"2021-08-25T12:02:25","slug":"taliban-have-captured-more-than-100-military-helicopters-russia-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=35928","title":{"rendered":"Taliban have captured more than 100 military helicopters, Russia says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fleet of Russian-made Mi-17 transport aircraft had been procured by US for Afghan armed forces<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2021\/aug\/25\/afghanistan-live-news-taliban-kabul-joe-biden-firm-31-august-deadline-us-troops-latest-updates\">Afghanistan withdrawal \u2013 live updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Taliban have captured more than 100 Russian-made helicopters in various states of operability, the head of a Russian state arms exporter has said, but will be largely unable to use them with little access to maintenance crews and spare parts.<\/p>\n<p>As the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/15\/a-tale-of-two-armies-why-afghan-forces-proved-no-match-for-the-taliban\">Taliban overran the Afghan army<\/a> and took control of large stores of arms and vehicles, it also captured at least 100 Mi-17 Hip helicopters, a Russian-made transport aircraft procured by the US for the Afghan armed forces because it was comparatively cheaper and easier to fly than US-made UH-60 Black Hawks.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/25\/taliban-capture-more-than-100-mi17-helicopters-afghan-armed-forces-russia-says\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fleet of Russian-made Mi-17 transport aircraft had been procured by US for Afghan armed forcesAfghanistan withdrawal \u2013 live updatesThe Taliban have captured more than 100 Russian-made helicopters in various states of operability, the head of a Russian &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":350,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,419,61,44,473,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-russia","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban","category-us-military","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/350"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35928"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35929,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35928\/revisions\/35929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}