Talebans luftvåben er nu større end en tredjedel af NATO-landes

Thank you, America: Taliban now has up to 48 aircraft including US-supplied Black Hawks and A-29 attack planes after Afghan army’s collapse left them with more air power than many NATO nations

• Jihadists have seized several major airbases, in Herat, Khost, Kunduz and Mazar-i-Sharif, and Kabul
• They have proudly posted pictures of seized $6m Black Hawks and a $14m Hercules transport jet
• The Taliban have been hunting for pilots from the disbanded Afghan Air Force to fly the vehicles
• Before Kabul fell, planes and helicopters were disabled by US troops, while others were flown overseas
• The jihadists have as many as 48 aircraft – it’s not clear how many planes or helicopters this breaks down to 
• This is more aircraft than a third of Nato member states, including: Albania, Bosnia, Estonia, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Montenegro, North Macedonia and Slovenia