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re: C130 Troop Transports
Posted on 5/2/17 at 4:50 pm to ABearsFanNMS
Posted on 5/2/17 at 4:50 pm to ABearsFanNMS
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A C130 can carry paks or cargo but not a tank. First an M1 Abrams won't actually fit in the door. Secondly a c130 can carry a little over 70,000 lbs....an Abrams tips the scale at about 120,000 lbs.
I believe a C130 can carry a Stryker, albeit one that has been partially disassembled to make it fit.
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Posted on 5/2/17 at 4:56 pm to ABearsFanNMS
M1A2s actually go about 72 tons or 144,000.
Posted on 5/2/17 at 4:58 pm to ABearsFanNMS
My first thought was somebody knew a decision would be leaked today and here comes the backup for the BRPD.
Posted on 5/2/17 at 5:01 pm to NASA_ISS_Tiger
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M1A2s actually go about 72 tons or 144,000.
Jesus that's heavy. Crazy that it is mobile and also that it can be loaded up in a plane (assuming one of those larger ones?).
Posted on 5/2/17 at 5:40 pm to Centinel
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C-130 rollin down the strip...
Airborne daddy gonna take a 'lil trip.
I jumped into Panama in '89. Had one heck of a Christmas...
Posted on 5/2/17 at 5:41 pm to RichJ
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I jumped into Panama in '89. Had one heck of a Christmas...
Worked with a guy who was in Panama. He said it was worse than what he saw in Nam.
Posted on 5/2/17 at 5:42 pm to LSUKNUT
Probably more to do with some disaster response exercises about to kick off but let's see what the foil hatters come up with... 
Posted on 5/2/17 at 5:44 pm to LSUKNUT
8 seems like a lot, but used to watch them regularly come in 4 or 5 at a time when I worked right there. Was pretty cool because our tallest vessel looked right down the runway.
Posted on 5/2/17 at 5:48 pm to LSUKNUT
quote:Took off in a lot more than I landed in. Just saying.
C130 Troop Transports
Posted on 5/2/17 at 5:53 pm to fightin tigers
It was actually only 2 doing circles or touch and goes. Had a clear view of them doing this for about 45 mins. Not saying troops or equiptment wasn't on them, only saying what I saw. I at first thought BR was being over taken by MAGA. Timing of it is pretty coincidental, but I seriously doubt JBE has the foresight or balls to call them up this early.
Posted on 5/2/17 at 6:08 pm to LSUKNUT
Saw one fly over downtown last week but nothing today.
Posted on 5/2/17 at 6:12 pm to Jim Rockford
quote:Styker, pull out, you're too close!
a C130 can carry a Stryker
Posted on 5/2/17 at 6:12 pm to CuseTiger
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Interesting, they're not on the arrivals list on flightaware. I guess most of what I was looking at was charter flights, meaning there could be a shite ton more military planes at BTR currently than the 8 you saw come in earlier
Military flights don't show up on flight aware.
Posted on 5/2/17 at 6:13 pm to NASA_ISS_Tiger
21 ton turret and a 1 ton breach. It's an experience shooting them. Badass.
Posted on 5/2/17 at 6:14 pm to Wolfhound45
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Took off in a lot more than I landed in. Just saying.
give me the ramp over the door all day long
Posted on 5/2/17 at 6:15 pm to ABearsFanNMS
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Secondly a c130 can carry a little over 70,000 lbs....an Abrams tips the scale at about 120,000 lbs.
So pardon my ignorant question, but then how in the hell do they get them where they need to be? Obviously there is a plane big enough to carry at least one, but do they fly them in one at a time? I imagine that we had 1000's of them in the Iraq war so that would have been a hell of a lot of flights if it was just one at a time.
Posted on 5/2/17 at 6:17 pm to supadave3
Transport ships.
Posted on 5/2/17 at 6:17 pm to 777Tiger
Posted on 5/2/17 at 6:20 pm to supadave3
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So pardon my ignorant question, but then how in the hell do they get them where they need to be? Obviously there is a plane big enough to carry at least one, but do they fly them in one at a time? I imagine that we had 1000's of them in the Iraq war so that would have been a hell of a lot of flights if it was just one at a time.
If it is flown in which some are they usually would come in on a bigger aircraft like a C-17, C-5, cargo 747, or An 124. I worked at Mosul Approach and when they started flying MRAPS in we would get multiple C-17s or AN 124s a day.
This post was edited on 5/2/17 at 6:21 pm
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