Pakistan eyes excess US military equipment in Afghanistan

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Re: Pakistan eyes excess US military equipment in Afghanistan

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This is potentially very good news. With the US withdrawing from Afghanistan this year, Pakistan is very interested in **obtaining the MRAP (Mine Resistant Ambush Protected) troop transport vehicles **that the US will be leaving behind. These are of very little effectiveness in a conventional war, but are very well suited to protection from the kind of IEDs the TTP have been using.

Pressurecooker bombs and manual operated clip bombs have made the utility of these MRAP as useless. Now US is only using these in combination with jammers to work.

i dont think that it is a good deal for pakistan.

Let them bury the uselss toys they have.

EDIT;

Read these for example

The MRAP: Brilliant Buy, or Billions Wasted? | TIME.com
The study suggested that the “40,000 saved lives” figure was an “unreasonable” premise that assumes “if the Army used up-armored Humvees rather than MRAPs, every attack on a vehicle would have resulted in the death of everyone inside.” While it is clear MRAPs saved lives, it is absurd to assume a Humvee would lose every life it carried. Increased MRAPs also did not prevent IED casualties from skyrocketing in 2010.
There’s also the question what becomes of the nearly 13,000 of the vehicles that remain in use in Afghanistan. “Can you imagine Franklin Roosevelt being told, `We need X number of landing craft on D-Day, but you know, once we land, we’re not going to need them all again, so why build them?’” Biden wondered Monday.
Back in 2007, General Jim Conway, then the Marine commandant, questioned the need for so many of the heavy vehicles. “Those vehicles weigh 40,000 pounds each in the larger category,” he said. “Frankly, you can’t put them in a helicopter and you can’t even put them aboard ship.” As for their use after these wars? “Wrap them in shrink wrap and put them in asphalt somewhere is about the best thing that we can describe at this point,” he said. “And as expensive as they are, that is probably not a good use of the taxpayers’ money.”
But that was five years ago, when perhaps the IED threat was seen more as a passing fad than a permanent player on the battlefield. That no longer seems to be the case. Last week, the Pentagon’s top IED killer warned that such roadside bombs will remain a persistent threat for decades to come. “The IED is the weapon of choice for threat networks because they are cheap, made from readily available off-the-shelf components, easy to construct, lethal and accurate,” said Army Lieut. General Michael Barbero, chief of the Joint IED Defeat Organization.
In which case it might make sense to have some shrink-wrapped and ready to go.

IED casualties in Afghanistan spike