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To: Hodar
I believe you meant to say Abrahms tank. The WWII Sherman couln't hit 75 miles an hour if you dropped it out of an aircraft.
5 posted on 05/23/2002 11:32:15 AM PDT by ScreamingFist
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To: ScreamingFist;Hodar
I believe you meant to say Abrahms tank. The WWII Sherman couln't hit 75 miles an hour if you dropped it out of an aircraft.

ROFL!!!!! Help I've fallen and can't get up! Blackbird.

23 posted on 05/23/2002 12:51:29 PM PDT by BlackbirdSST
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To: ScreamingFist
I believe you meant to say Abrahms tank. The WWII Sherman couln't hit 75 miles an hour if you dropped it out of an aircraft.

It'd do a little better than that. At 32 feet per second per second, after 6 seconds it's falling at over 170 feet per second, which is approximately 120 mph. Less wind resistance, of course, and a Sherman can hardly be considered streamlined. But that's not much of a factor.

You know that the Russians have been known to airdrop their BMD paratroop fighting vehicles with a well-padded driver and gunner inside? Real brave fellas, them Russkies!

-archy-/-

26 posted on 05/23/2002 1:05:26 PM PDT by archy
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