The functionality of the Afghan Taliban’s armed forces is declining, with a fall in their capacity to make use of overseas gear that the Islamist group seized when it returned to energy within the landlocked nation in 2021.
A scarcity of worldwide recognition for the Taliban administration has additionally damage army modernisation.
The power of the Afghan Taliban’s army is thinner in comparison with Pakistan’s, with solely 172,000 energetic personnel. The group has, nevertheless, introduced plans to develop its armed forces to 200,000 personnel.
The Afghan forces possess armoured preventing automobiles, together with Soviet-era foremost battle tanks, armoured personnel carriers and autonomous underwater automobiles, however their precise quantity is unknown.
The exact variety of artillery items they possess, which is of at the least three differing types, is equally not recognized.
Afghanistan has no fighter jets and no actual air power to talk of. It is thought to own at the least six plane — some of them relationship again to the Soviet period — and 23 helicopters, though it’s not attainable to assess what number of are in flying situation.
Afghanistan doesn’t have a nuclear arsenal, not like Pakistan. – Reuters
