RE: C-5 Hit By a SAM
Manufacturer: Lockheed Martin Country of Origin: USA
Model:C5 Galaxy
Information:
How do you get six Apache helicopters to fly in formation with their
engines off? Put them inside a C-5 Galaxy. Or two M1 main battle tanks,
each weighing 135,400 pounds. Or six M-2/M-3 Bradley Infantry Vehicles.
Or a quarter-million pounds of relief supplies. You get the idea, the C-5 is
big - one of the biggest airlifters ever made. The Wright brothers could have
made their miraculous first flight within the C-5's cargo bay. There is no
piece of army combat equipment it can't carry, including a 74-ton mobile
bridge. It's six stories high, as long as a football field, and if you ever wanted
to open an eight-lane bowling alley at 30,000 feet, you could do it in a C-5.
Yet despite its size, the C-5 is amazingly versatile. Even with a payload of
263,200 pounds, the latest version can fly non-stop for 2,500 miles at jet
speeds and with aerial refueling, it can go forever. It can load outsized
cargo from both ends at once (at truck bed height or ground level), and
its 28-wheel, high flotation landing gear lets it operate from unpaved
airfields without ground support equipment.