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'Tanks' for the ride

Posted 11/17/2011 Email story   Print story

    

11/17/2011 - Two M-1 Abrams tanks from Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md., are loaded in the cargo area of a C-5M Super Galaxy assigned to Dover Air Force Base, Del. The C-5M currently holds 42 world aviation records in airlift. The modernized version of the C-5, the Super Galaxy has 70 improvements, including new GE CF6 engines providing 22 percent more thrust and cutting climb time in half. New lighting in the cargo area increases safety of loading and offloading cargo. (U.S. Air Force photo/Lt. Col. Chad E. Gibson)



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11/23/2011 1:02:22 PM ET
All I have to say is can a C-17 even consider a load like that? The Airforce should reconsider retiring fully operational C-5A's and give them new life as reengined C-5M's.
MSGT Craig Salo, Stewart ANGB Newburgh N.Y.
 
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