Another minor problem with our stay in Afghanistan - We bought sixteen G222 turboprop aircraft from Finmeccanica for $486,000,000. They have flown a mere 200 hours and now sit in a field at Kabul Airport ready to be scrapped.
Lieutenant General Charles Davis, the service’s top military acquisition official, says,“We looked for buyers, people to accept those, and nobody was interested in trying to maintain an airplane that was no longer sustainable, so that’s why” these aircraft “are sitting on the ramp and not going to fly.” They will be stripped of military gear “and destroyed and moved out of the country.”
These planes were expected to make up 15% of the Afghan Air Force. Will we supply replacements?
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