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Comment on Not to arm chair general it. How come the US doesn't get a bunch of helicopters over to the Lincoln with food meds and whatever? How did it get this bad where we can't supply our own ships?

clanker_victim_555@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

Helicopters are very limited on weight and range. They cost thousands (maybe tens of thousands if they’re military) per hour to operate. A carrier has thousands of sailors on it.

You just couldn’t carry enough stuff to them in a reasonable amount of time.

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crank0271@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
How many beans do you think they could fit in one of those bad boys?

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- Nobody@anarchist.nexus ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  We may never find out. The cost-to-bean ratio is far too high.
  
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- Bougie_Birdie@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  There’s about 400 beans in a one-pound can, and a blackhawk has an internal cargo limit of 2600lbs. It could alternatively carry a 9,000lb load via sling.
  
  That’s either 1,040,000 or 3.6M beans
  
  Of course, some of that is going to be in packaging, and the average dried bean is about half the size of a ready-to-eat bean. I’m guessing you could make it between 4-10 million beans depending on how you want to optimize
  
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  - BorisBoreUs@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    …is there a ‘They did the Math’ around these parts?
    
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