most of the handovers of equipment, such as nightvision goggles for the Frontier Corps -- have been in the pipeline for years....these are requested for counter-insurgency operations
india has nothing to do with this equation of transfer of equipment for COIN
and unfortunately, because of attacks on NATO positions/checkposts in Afghanistan -- the enemy we are fighting has managed also to get ahold of such equipment like night-vision adjustable zoom scopes or thermal goggles, etc.; they also have access to such things; you'll be amazed if you did research on the type of stuff we've captured off of dead terrorists
Looks like US wants to leave all the equipment in Pakistan and Afghanistan before leaving
no; they've made it clear that a lot of sensitive tech will indeed be going back
used armored personnel carriers, Humvees and small arms may be gifted to the ANA to assist them
even though 2/3 of the NATO shipments would go via Pakistan, their most sensitive equipment, such as 'heavy weapons' and radars, communications systems will be flown out by air probably via C130 or Globemaster
my guess is, they would be re-deployed on Saudi, Kuwaiti, Bahraini or German bases --depending on needs and other factors; or just flown all the way back to mainland USA