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Old 10th Mar 2020, 19:25
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Originally Posted by racedo
What is airlift capacity required for transferring a complete division from US to Europe ?
Yes I know it woukld be substantial but aircraft would be doing 14 flights a week V shipping.
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Reading a piece today on M1 Abrams which indicated that during GW1 using C5 Galaxy that US transported tanks, 2 at a time to Saudi Arabia and did a maximum of 2000. However weight now is 20 % greater so this will reduce carrying capacity.
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