The Taliban now have 48 aircraft, including US-supplied attack planes and helicopters, giving them more air power than other NATO nations.
Jihadists have managed to capture 10 major airfields and today they flew in a $6 million Black Hawk helicopter as they fight against the resistance.
Taliban chiefs reportedly ordered members to search for pilots from the disbanded Afghan Air Force who received training from the US and allies to navigate choppers and high-tech warplanes.
Without the pilots who received expensive training, flying complicated aircraft is almost impossible for an amateur.
On Tuesday, jihadists seized Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul as they climbed into the cockpit of a $14 million Hercules transport jet.
According to an inspection on June 30, the Afghan Air Force was operating 167 aircraft, including 59 planes and 108 helicopters.
Before Kabul city fell, Uzbekistan reported that 46 Afghan aircraft had arrived in the country to prevent the Taliban from taking over.
Gen. Frank McKenzie, the commander of the US evacuation mission, said American troops disabled 73 aircraft before leaving Afghanistan.
Photos showed guns, wheels, and propellers removed from aircraft while other planes lay with fuselages on the tarmac to leave them inoperable.
That leaves up to 48 aircraft for the Taliban, giving them more air power than other NATO nations: Slovenia, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Luxembourg, Lithuania, Latvia, Iceland, Estonia, Bosnia, and Albania.
The United States has over 13,000 aircraft, followed by France with 1,057, Turkey has 1,056, Italy has 876, and the UK has 738.
It is not clear how many former pilots the Taliban have captured but a video recently shared showed jihadists flying in a Russian-made Mi-17 chopper.
Another clip shows a Black Hawk flying to the Panjshir Valley to fight the resistance.
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