One of Ours?

[Scott Bentley]

Originally Posted by rob love

Customers can be quite picky, even when it comes to freebies. Wikopedia reports that the recipients of the AVGPs were not happy with their maintainability. Even in Afghanistan, the Afghan military returned our 2500 (IIRC) "foreign aid" C7 rifles.

Add to that the Afghan's refusal to take our leftover Iltis' without huge support concessions on our part. The west would have been better serving the ANA by outfitting them in newer AKM's and Hilux Pickups, rather than M16s and Ford Rangers.

You really hit the salient point here Rob. Especially when it comes the Armoured Vehicles. I think the reason ex-Soviet eqpt is so popular in these developing countries is due to its ability to be maintained on a shoe string by people with little to no training.