In their various announcements, the Taliban regularly claim to have destroyed an enemy tank. Numbers may well be overstated.* Nonetheless: One might wonder what sort of armored vehicle they are calling a "tank". Surely not an Abrams or an M60A1, and one might expect their supply of old Soviet T34/85s has long since worn out. Ideas? In addition, with some frequency they claim to have captured armored personnel carriers. What are they doing with them? The Afghan National Army outpost strategy, defend everywhere defends nothing, appears to leave outposts that are not well-equipped to handle even ligthly armored vehicles. *On the other hand, their recent claim of full control of tens of districts, including capitals, matches your number more or less.