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From: skidrow@ceres.ucsc.edu (Gary M. Lin)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: Can a C-5A carry an M-1 Abrams?
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Date: 2 Sep 90 06:06:30 GMT
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From: skidrow@ceres.ucsc.edu (Gary M. Lin)

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

>From: holtz@netcord.Eng.Sun.COM (Brian Holtz)
>If not, why not?
>--
>Brian Holtz (holtz@netcord.Eng.Sun.COM)

	Yes, the C-5A is the only air transport capable
	of ferrying an Abrams M-1.  Though the problem is
	that you can't load much else with it, so it isn't
	economical.

	The figure I heard someplace was a C-5A could do
	only ONE M-1 and a platoon or so due to the tremendous
	mass of the tank.

					- Gary M. Lin
					skidrow@ceres.ucsc.edu