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To: Enchante
CH-47 can carry pretty good loads, too, up to 12 tons

That's very impressive, but the CH-53E can lift an external load of 33,320 lbs - 16.6 tons - and strip away your shingles and your hearing at the same time. Between friendly helos and hostile artillery, this old infantryman is almost deaf as a door nail!

32 posted on 04/16/2018 2:24:19 PM PDT by Always A Marine ("I am going to instruct my attorney general to get a special prosecutor to look into your situation")
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To: Always A Marine

nice.....

p.s. I now find that the latest version, the CH47F, can lift 14 tons external load.... still not as much as the latest CH53, but not too shabby, either.


33 posted on 04/16/2018 2:37:45 PM PDT by Enchante (FusionGPS "dirty dossier" scandal links Hillary, FBI, CIA, Dept of Justice... "Deep State" is real)
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