JFZ90 wrote:
That said, the way the MRAPs were chained to the pallet on the bagram loading photos seemed to have quite a low number of chains at orientations not suggesting much longitudinal restraint for such a heavy vehicle compared to some typical mil tie down schemes I've seen.
Not trying to compare apples to oranges, and in this case the tie down of military equipment in an aircraft as opposed to a train but I the way we used to tie down our M109 howitzers (25 tons vs. the 18 tons of an MRAP) was via chains to metal rings on the outside of the rail car. I realize you can't do that on an aircraft BUT the method used to tie the chains onto the rail car seem, in hindsight, substantially "tighter", if you will, then the photos I've seen of MRAP's inside aircraft. I could be wrong, of course.