To meet goal, DOD must send nearly 370 MRAPs per month to Iraq

[unhappycamper]

Jason Robertson / USAF
U.S. Air Force personnel prepare to load Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) vehicles onto a C-5 Galaxy assigned to the 436th Air Wing, Dover, Air Force Base (AFB), Del. at Charleston AFB, S.C., in August.


To meet goal, DOD must send nearly 370 MRAPs per month to Iraq
By Jeff Schogol, Stars and Stripes
Online edition, Wednesday, October 3, 2007


ARLINGTON, Va. — The Defense Department has to send nearly 370 Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicles per month to Iraq in order to meet its goal for 2007.

That is almost four times the number of vehicles the Pentagon was able to send to Iraq in September.

Known as MRAPs, the vehicles have V-shaped hulls that deflect blasts from underneath. They have proven to hold up better against roadside bombs than up-armored Humvees.

The Defense Department originally hoped to send 3,500 MRAPs to Iraq this year, but later revised that estimate to 1,500.

As of Oct. 2, about 390 MRAPs have been sent to Iraq so far this year, said Defense Department spokeswoman Cheryl Irwin.

Industry delivered 365 MRAPs to the government in September, but U.S. Transportation Command flew just 101 of the vehicles to Iraq that month, Irwin said.


Rest of article at: http://stripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=49255



uhc comment: The MRAPs are a tad too large to put on ships, so we are airlifting them to Iraq.

The specs on the C-5 ( http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/aircraft/c-5-specs.htm ) say:

Total Fuel Capacity 51,154 US gal
Max Payload Range 2,960 NM

If that is to be believed, then 51,154 gallons / 2960 nautical miles = 17.281756756756756756756756756757 gallons per nautical mile.

And some continue to believe it's not all about oil.

[Jacobin]

1. The fuel capacity is obviously a typo

Not a chance it holds 51,154 gallons.

[demommom]

2. Personally: What price do you put on over 3000 lives ?

[Maq]

3. 51154 conversions

SOURCE: http://www.metric-conversions.org/cgi-bin/util/convert.cgi

2960 nm equals 3406.307 miles
2960 nm equals 5481.92 kilometers

51154 US gallons/2960 nautical miles equals 17.282 nautical miles per US gallon
51154 US gallons/3406.307 miles equals 15.017 miles per US gallon

51154 US gallons equals 42594.615 Imperial Gallons (UK)

42594.615 Imperial gallons/2960 nautical miles equals 14.39 nmpig
42594.615 Imperial gallons/3406.307 miles equals 12.5 mpig

42594.615 Imperial gallons/5481.92 kilometers equals 7.77 kpig