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From: jln@portia.Stanford.EDU (Jared Nedzel)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: Can a C-5A carry an M-1 Abrams?
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Date: 31 Aug 90 03:05:05 GMT
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From: jln@portia.Stanford.EDU (Jared Nedzel)
In article <1990Aug29.014749.8261@cbnews.att.com} holtz@netcord.Eng.Sun.COM (Brian Holtz) writes:


}From: holtz@netcord.Eng.Sun.COM (Brian Holtz)

}Can a C-5A carry an M-1 Abrams?
}If not, why not?

Yes, it can carry one. The M-1 weighs 60 tons and it's quite wide as well.
No other US aircraft can carry one. Considering, however, the limited 
number of C-5As, the ability to carry an M-1 Abrams doesn't buy us much.
To practically move a significant armoured force, we need to rely on
sea lift. Which is why the 24th Mechanized (which only has ~180 M-1s)
went to Saudi Arabia by sea.

}Brian Holtz (holtz@netcord.Eng.Sun.COM)


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