US lost eight jets in worst air loss in one day since Vietnam war!!

[mrcritic]

RT:After Taliban gunmen destroyed eight Harrier jets at a US camp in Helmand Province, the US military has suffered its worst air loss in one day since the Vietnam War.

The Taliban attacked Camp Bastion, the main strategic base in southwestern Afghanistan, on Sept. 14, causing $200 million in damage in the single most destructive strike on a Western base during the war, according to military officials.

Two Marines were killed, nine coalition personnel were wounded and six jets costing between $23 million and $30 million were completely destroyed.
The approximately 15 insurgents, dressed in US Army uniforms, had penetrated the base Friday night and instantly began shooting and setting fire to parked Navy-AV-8B Harrier jets when they were inside. Three refueling stations were severely damaged during the attack.

“It was a running gun battle for a while, two and a half hours, nonetheless they were able to get to the aircraft before we could intercept them,” a military official told the New York Times. Using machine guns, rocket propelled grenades and possibly mortars, most of the aircrafts were demolished.

After a drawn-out nighttime battle that made it hard to see the enemy, all but one of the Taliban fighters were killed. The remaining insurgent is now in military custody.

Camp Bastion is one of the largest and best-defended posts in Afghanistan, making it troubling that the attackers were able to inflict so much damage.

“We’re saying it’s a very sophisticated attack,” a military official told the Times. “We’ve lost aircraft in battle, but nothing like this.”
The Taliban made a statement blaming the attack on the anti-Muslim video that sparked outrage in the Arab world. But Wahid Mujda, an Afghan analyst who tracks the Taliban, told the Times that an attack as sophisticated as this one took a lot of planning and training, thereby being unrelated to the release of the video.

“I do not think that the Camp Bastion attack had anything to do with the anti-Prophet movie,” he said. “Given the sophistication of the attack one can say with a lot of confidence that the Taliban had been training, rehearsing and preparing for weeks and even months. Everything was not planned and decided overnight.”

The detrimental attack comes after nearly 10,000 American Marines have left Helmand Province over the past several months, now that the offensive is over. But more coalition service members have died this year in Afghanistan. After Friday’s attack, four more service members were killed on Sunday in Zabul Province, bringing the total number of deaths this year to 51. Last year, 35 were killed as a result of this type of violence.
And as US involvement in Afghanistan trickles down, the Taliban has left its mark on the highest security base with the most destructive attack in the region in 11 years.

[SMAAS]

Kider ge Pak army ke dushman jo kehte they ke dekho Pak Army kuch ker he nahi pae Mehran Air Base attack per or Kamra attack per. abb pata lga jub koi apna bun ker attack kerta hai tou rokna kitne mushkil hota hai. wo tou phir b Afghani thay phir b 6 fighter jet barbaad ker diyee. ider tou dushman brown pakistani honey ke bavoujood sirf ik plane he barbaad howa tha or dousray attack main koi b nahi. abb batou kon strong hai? mujey yakeen hai Pak Army hum pakistanioun ko her dushmun ke waar se bacha sakti hai or humari hafazat b rukh sakti hai. Pak Army Zindabad

[IhsanIlahi]

Get Lost America --- U will be the loosers ---

[zaheer_meo]

wonderful logic..

[MS Jan]

[Mehrushka]

And still they dont learn a lesson

[psycho1]

next time hazzar martaba soochan gan,pakistani airbase par attack karwany sy paly. shatan log

[Vitamin_C]

Harrier jets? wtf are harriers i thought they were retired in most developed militarizes of the world, even the British do not use them anymore.
I think these were some other expensive jets like f 18 hornets, but US probably showed as harriers for less humiliation.

[inqlab]

it could be a message from pak army to US army ... tit for tat ...

[littlemaster]

Where is their technology??????????????????????????
Can't they see they are about to be attatcked.or taliban got beter technology.

[c4cheema]

Where is their technology??????????????????????????
Can't they see they are about to be attatcked.or taliban got beter technology.

Kasah ya technology hamary Army be apna lati



And you did not kill them, but it was Allah who killed them. And you threw not, [O Muhammad], when you threw, but it was Allah who threw that He might test the believers with a good test. Indeed, Allah is Hearing and Knowing.

[aq.inqalabi]

Atlast, something good to see , if taliban keep on striking their real enemies like this , v'll all support them

[gazoomartian]

And still they dont learn a lesson

Western govts are arrogant and tyrant. There motto always is that 'I am right. I am big. I am better, you bow to me'

Look at the current situation. They could have easily arrested Pastor Terrorist Jones, Bacile, and other financiers of the blasphemous and cooled off the Muslim countries.

west will listen only to one thing: a boot on butt from united Muslim countries, but united Muslim countries????

US has lost its competition, Soviet Union, for worse of the world

[gazoomartian]

Kasah ya technology hamary Army be apna lati



And you did not kill them, but it was Allah who killed them. And you threw not, [O Muhammad], when you threw, but it was Allah who threw that He might test the believers with a good test. Indeed, Allah is Hearing and Knowing.

Wallahi, long time no see cheema. Hope all is well with you and the family