15.02.1989 Россия.
Вывод советских войск из Афганистана. Встреча воинов-афганцев на границе.
15.02.1989 Russia.
A 1989 photo of the Soviet troops leaving Afghanistan.
Photo: Yury Dyakonov
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Afghanistan Needs No Soviet Weapons
The Army of Afghanistan will abandon weapons of Soviet make, fergana.ru reported. With no efficient economy, Afghan government is unable to repair the weapons delivered from former Soviet Union. Nor can it buy spares and ammunition for them.
For today’s Afghanistan, the basic source to maintain the arsenal is the weapons sold by the western nations for symbolic price or donated by them.
Turkey, for instance, passed to Afghanistan a consignment of the U.S. 155mm howitzers of 1942. The replacement of T-62 tanks of Soviet make by their German contemporary Leopard-1 is being studied now. Leopards will be provided by armed forces of Canada, Norway and Australia. Kalashnikov sub-machine guns will be substituted by the U.S. M-16 and M-4.
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