The US Army damaged aircraft and armored vehicles before withdrawing from Kabul Airport

Before withdrawing from Kabul airport, the US military announced that it had damaged aircraft, armored vehicles and an anti-missile defense system.

The commander of the US Central Command, General Kenneth McKenzie, said during a press conference that his forces "disarmed" these materiel, meaning that they were damaged and rendered inoperable again.

General McKenzie, who follows Afghanistan to the scope of his command's operations, added that the disabled equipment included 73 aircraft, stressing that "these aircraft will not fly again."

He added, "No one will be able to use it," noting that "most of them were originally out of service, but it is certain that they will not be able to fly again."

General McKenzie explained that the US military, which deployed 6,000 soldiers to control and operate Kabul Airport as of August 14 in order to secure an airlift for the evacuation of tens of thousands of American nationals, foreigners and Afghan asylum seekers, also left behind 70 mine-resistant armored vehicles - each costing one million - at the airport. Dollars - and 27 light-armored Humvees.

McKenzie said all of these mechanisms have been corrupted and taken out of service, so "no one will be able to use them again."

He added that the US military also left behind a C-RAM missile defense system that it had installed to protect Kabul airport, a system that intercepted yesterday five missile attacks launched by ISIS on the airport, noting that the difficulty of dismantling it eventually necessitated its destruction.

"We chose to leave these systems in service until the last minute," said General McKenzie, before the last plane took off from Kabul airport.

He explained that "dismantling these systems is a complex and time-consuming procedure, so the army disarmed them so that they would not be used again."

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