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Originally Posted by buckman
SAMs were supplied by us to the Afghan mujahedin guerrillas in the 1980s. I have read reports that SAMs have downed other US copters in Afghan also.
Point being...if it wasn't SAMs that downed the helicopter but instead it was a lucky shot by a grenade launcher, then why would we not worry about 20k missing weapons that are more capable then RPGs?
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I believe the weapons we supplied Afghanistan in the 1980's are all probably used or defunct. Don't think we were sending spare batteries etc...
And as to my initial post in this thread. The report is not that there are 20,000 SAMs stolen. They can't account for them as the old government is not functioning and the new government isn't up yet. Russia reports that Libya bought 600-1200 shoulder fired advanced SAM's that would be the biggest concern. It sounds like some of these have been pilfered...but we really don't know how many as none of these reports seem to be confirmed.
-spence
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