Qatar says it's not clear when Kabul airport will reopen

The US military disabled most of the aircraft, so unless the taliban grow wings they won’t have much to fly in.

We are working very hard and engaging with the Taliban to identify what are the gaps and the risks for having the airport back up and running.”

The biggest factor is whether there will be anyone who is going to Afghanistan willingly, except the extremists!!

The American right wing has been praising taliban a lot , so maybe we can give them one way tickets to Kabul!

Want to stay up with the status of international civil air transportation in and out? Link to the ICAO's ​Afghanistan situation page:

https://www.icao.int/APAC/Meetings/Pages/2021-AFGH-ATM.aspx .

Last update was three days ago. A new sitrep is due.

Once tourism takes off.

The paradox is that the skilled technical people who know how to run a modern airport (from maintainers to air traffic controllers) are the ones who most want to leave Afghanistan as soon as they can. So the Taliban will have to rely on other foreigners to run the airport and most other municipal infrastructure. They have merely traded one "occupation" for a different one.

Once tourism takes off.

Well said sir, I can already see the hordes of tourists flying into Afghanistan.

Where else can you find an undeveloped country, ruled by people with a primitive mindset and arms, weapons strewn all around.

It’s like a dream destination for……. some people I guess!

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The US military disabled most of the aircraft, so unless the taliban grow wings they won’t have much to fly in.

I doubt they will grow wings, there are other ways they can fly away…..but anyway, they just have to give it to the Chinese or Russians, they can fix it. Why this President or his senior officials didn’t decide to blow all of up before they started the pullout will be the dumbest mistake they will be talking about in military training schools for the next 200 years.

but anyway, they just have to give it to the Chinese or Russians, they can fix it. 

Totally, after all the US manufactures it’s weaponry in Russia and China.

Why this President or his senior officials didn’t decide to blow all of up before they started the pullout will be the dumbest mistake they will be talking about in military training schools for the next 200 years.

I think it has to do with the inconvenient fact that they would have to blow up something in the close vicinity of themselves and the hundreds of civilians.

they started the pullout will be the dumbest mistake they will be talking about in military training schools for the next 200 years.

I am sure the Pentagon is taking note of comments from decorated war heroes!

they started the pullout will be the dumbest mistake they will be talking about in military training schools for the next 200 years.

i bet none of the experts thought of triggering a small but big explosion, something only decorated war heroes understand!

The Talibam is rewarded with 20 years of blood sweat tears they have given out!

Most of the aircraft was disabled and will never fly again but one Black Hawk copter was flying over Kabul yesterday.

You can always rebuild it. Even the Taliban figured out how to disable and re-assemble and rebuild and improvise parts to create Im[rovised explosives if they can do that, the Chinese and Russians will have no problem rebuilding or figuring out the mechanics, rebuilt a lot of guitars, basses out of crap and broken parts, with a little time and patience, not difficult to do.

I think it has to do with the inconvenient fact that they would have to blow up something in the close vicinity of themselves and the hundreds of civilians.

As most of the Special Ops have been saying, that could have been done before the evacuation started.

The Talibam is rewarded with 20 years of blood sweat tears they have given out!

Exactly! Like giving FREE candy away at a kid's store.

Why this President or his senior officials didn’t decide to blow all of up before they started the pullout

Because that would ruin the airport inoperable for an even longer period

They still need the airport to work at the very least to fly in humanitarian aid if necessary (not necessarily commercial travel which requires a higher standard)

It's likely they left the planes so inoperable enough that even the Russians and Chinese can't fix it without the right parts that's manufactured just for the US military, or it's so costly to fix that it's not worth the money to fix it instead of just buying another plane

(Plus they need people trained to fly those US military planes, just not worth it)

The troops did some serious damage to the remaining aircraft. Rebuilding would require obtaining parts for military hardware which ain't going to happen.

There is no way you would no or could ever prove that, if we can do it with their equipment and we have, then they can do it to ours.

The Taliban don't have pilots or bombs to arm the aircraft.

Pakistan is right next door, they have fighters and so does Iran

Military aircraft are not broken bass guitars.

No, but I have built them out of broken parts and that means a skilled engineer wouldn't have any problem building and restoring these parts as well. Watch "Pimp my ride."

The Taliban have many very serious problems they need to resolve like cash in the banks, food in the stores, medicine in the hospitals.

.....as well planning, plotting, and learning how to kill Westerners

watching too many Macgyver episodes.

Don't need to watch that show in order to have basic common sense

People who have never served their country in uniform on these threads probably don’t have any idea what it takes to maintain, let alone fix, most weapons systems.

Worked on cars, boats, and electrical instruments, I think I have a basic idea.

The people who disabled these systems were not Biden or his staff,

No, he just didn't give our men and women enough time to destroy all of it.

No, he just didn't give our men and women enough time to destroy all of it.

Don't need to destroy to smithereens to make it inoperable or too costly to fix

These are specialized equipment - give the soldiers on the ground benefit of the doubt they know what to destroy

I am a qualified and highly experienced engineer with tons of heavy industrial experience in chemical plants including instrumentation and control systems. I have worked with very advanced engineering systems including very large hospitals and life-giving equipment.

Good for you.

I also have military experience.

Ok

Basically, if you think you can easily repair those highly damaged aircraft, there are a number of photos on the internet to view them.

I didn't say easily, I said, it can be done or at least to the point where you understand how the basic mechanics work. Done it with various instruments and once I knew it was easy to understand how the basic functions operate. We have done the same to other countries and their hardware and as much as I love my people and country, there are other smart people that can figure out complex things as well.

Specifications for military parts are engineered to high standards and need more than a few broken guitar parts. Those military parts are restricted and banned from exports unless the government gives authority. The Iranian air force has many unusable aircraft because America stopped the parts being imported.

Well, you and I don't know what knowledge they have or don't when it comes to understanding the fundamental basics of how our weaponry works. Case in point, the infamous AK-47, we liked the basic function and how it operated and then came up with our similar version the M-16 so of course it can be done. Again, you don't have to go to Yale to understand basic ingenuity 

I am sorry but you don't know what you are talking about.

I do though, sorry to disappoint you.

Either Iran or Pakistan can provide pilots for those broken aircraft.

Now with a strengthening relationship with Russia and China, they might just get their wish.

Iran and China do not even want a Taliban with an airforce

True, but they can offer money in exchange for the parts and take them back to study and analyze the parts.

Sorry, you are way out of your depth on the problems of trying to repair unusable military aircraft.

When it comes to the basic concept of electronics and mechanic, I don't think so.

The Afghan forces have pilots and planes but all of the upkeep and maintenance was done by American contractors.

So now you're saying the Russians and Chinese are not formidable, creative, shrewd as well as smart and cunning??

They have now left the country.

The Chinese and Russians are going in

There is a big difference between an AK-47 and a Black Hawk copter.

That wasn't my point, relax and try reading slowly and carefully what I wrote again.

I give up because you have no idea what you are talking about.

That's your opinion, you don't know me or what I know.

America has one of the most advanced military airforces in the world with highly trained aircraft mechanics to maintain them. Many tens of thousands. Tens of thousands more engineers design and built them.

As if the Chinese and the Russians would pass up the opportunity to view American military hardware. Yeah, sure....

Like I said you do not know what you are talking about.

And like I said, you know nothing about me, absolutely nothing, you are completely wrong to pass any judgment or form any opinion as to what I know or don't know.

I know you are not a qualified or experienced engineer.

I'm neither a mechanic nor a carpenter and yet, I built a home theater system in my home and a nice stereo system in my car, so if I can figure that on my own, think of what a Chinese or Russian engineer can do.

All that equipment and aircraft can easily be repaired or rebuilt. What a wasteful decision by Biden and his crue.

As if the Chinese and the Russians would pass up the opportunity to view American military hardware. Yeah, sure....

The Afghan Air Force has nothing the Russians and Chinese are not already familiar with. Their fixed wing fleet consists of an old Boeing 727, 4 C-130s, two dozen Cessna 208 Carvans (FedEx uses these, a box with wings and a turboprop engine on the nose) and 18 Pilatus PC-12. Their combat power such as it is consists of ten more Cessna AC-208s (Cessna 208s with some sensors and the ability to fire two Hellfire missiles) and 19 Brazilian made Super Tucanos. No jets, nothing sophisticated. Their rotary wing fleet consists of Mi-17s, Mi-24s both of which are Russian, some Blackhawks (China has manufactured Blackhawks under a license granted in the mid 1980s before the Tiananmen Square massacre) along with some old UH-1s and MD-500s. Again, nothing sophisticated or unknown to the Russians and Chinese. There are two C-27s and some L-39s that were retired (the Italians embargoed parts for them many years ago so they are not flyable) along with some Russian made AN-32s that were retired. Yep, the Russians and Chinese are just rubbing their hands in glee to take a look at these, lol.

All that equipment and aircraft can easily be repaired or rebuilt. What a wasteful decision by Biden and his crue.

None of the aircraft the Afghans have are particularly valuable to the US. Only the four Hercules and the Blackhawks are types operated by the US military and none of these have anything secret in them.