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Title: c-47 carry vehicles
Post by: remy1dog on May 24, 2010, 03:07:16 PM
It would be so neet if a c-47 could carry a jeep or tank
Title: Re: c-47 carry vehicles
Post by: Lusche on May 24, 2010, 03:09:30 PM
Which tanks was a C-47 able to carry?  ;)
Title: Re: c-47 carry vehicles
Post by: 321BAR on May 24, 2010, 03:13:58 PM
Which tanks was a C-47 able to carry?  ;)
what was that little two person tank that the Brits used? but i think they were only in gliders... sooooo....+1 to gliders :D
Title: Re: c-47 carry vehicles
Post by: gyrene81 on May 24, 2010, 03:30:37 PM
It would be so neet if a c-47 could carry a jeep or tank
Yeah it would be really neat...if the C-47 had a loading ramp in the back end and the capacity to get off the ground with up to 80 tons...but it didn't.
Title: Re: c-47 carry vehicles
Post by: whipster22 on May 24, 2010, 03:45:21 PM
they parachuted in jeeps but like that would help
Title: Re: c-47 carry vehicles
Post by: oakranger on May 24, 2010, 03:49:06 PM
Which tanks was a C-47 able to carry?  ;)


M1 Abraham and Panzer 2000
Title: Re: c-47 carry vehicles
Post by: ariansworld on May 24, 2010, 03:52:02 PM
It would be so neet if a c-47 could carry a jeep or tank
He must be refering to a C46...... my grandfather flew one in the pacific theater, over the himalayas.  He swears to this day, that was the only time he saw 10k pounds of steel Jump 6 inches off the floor. When it hit, he thought that they were going to go down, because of how loud the crash was.
Title: Re: c-47 carry vehicles
Post by: gyrene81 on May 24, 2010, 04:14:28 PM
Even the C-46 could't carry a tank...or even a half-track. Everything that couldn't be carried on had to be winched onboard. The best it could handle was light artillery.
Title: Re: c-47 carry vehicles
Post by: GUNS06 on May 24, 2010, 05:31:44 PM
46's and c-47's could carry a jeep.....air drop them.....no-way
 1st time U.S. air dropped a jeep (by design) was with a C-119
Title: Re: c-47 carry vehicles
Post by: 321BAR on May 24, 2010, 05:41:35 PM
give us horsas attached to the C47s and roll jeeps and the British 6pounder mini tanks as a load out...
Title: Re: c-47 carry vehicles
Post by: Nemisis on May 24, 2010, 06:51:38 PM
what was that little two person tank that the Brits used? but i think they were only in gliders... sooooo....+1 to gliders :D

Cruiser tetrach or M22 locust, and the Hamilcar glider. The glider was used to deliver the tanks and other heavy equipment to support the airborne.
Title: Re: c-47 carry vehicles
Post by: LLogann on May 24, 2010, 07:49:02 PM
Are you crazy man?  Didn't you see Saving Private Ryan



FUBAR





total FUBAR
Title: Re: c-47 carry vehicles
Post by: 321BAR on May 24, 2010, 09:15:06 PM
Cruiser tetrach or M22 locust, and the Hamilcar glider. The glider was used to deliver the tanks and other heavy equipment to support the airborne.
ahh yes the 6 pnd tetrarch tank... ty
Title: Re: c-47 carry vehicles
Post by: ACE on May 24, 2010, 09:20:23 PM
Whats the point of dropping a Jeep out of a C-47 when you can drop more than 2 troops or 2 supps?
Title: Re: c-47 carry vehicles
Post by: Nemisis on May 24, 2010, 10:56:24 PM
I could see the point if we had any advantage of scouting from the ground as opposed to the air.
Title: Re: c-47 carry vehicles
Post by: 321BAR on May 25, 2010, 05:54:33 AM
I could see the point if we had any advantage of scouting from the ground as opposed to the air.
there is an advantage...used against me and by me. Jeeps as scouts gain the advantage of knowing the terrain and enemy locations, (albeit the eyes in the sky are much better at locating the enemy but not small terrain features such as trees, line of sights, etc.)
Title: Re: c-47 carry vehicles
Post by: ImADot on May 25, 2010, 12:42:51 PM
I'm all for it.  You need a manned GV to drive into the C47.  Then you get a 2-fer kill when you see a low slow goon flying around!  :rock
Title: Re: c-47 carry vehicles
Post by: VonMessa on May 25, 2010, 12:57:02 PM
<undereducated troll mode on>

Ummmmmm..........

Has anyone here dug out a vehicle that was dropped via parachute?

With an E-tool?

Ummm.....

Yeah...........


It like........  ummmmmmmm........   sucks, OK?

<undereducated troll mode off>
Title: Re: c-47 carry vehicles
Post by: whipster22 on May 25, 2010, 01:37:54 PM
<undereducated troll mode on>

Ummmmmm..........

Has anyone here dug out a vehicle that was dropped via parachute?

With an E-tool?

Ummm.....

Yeah...........


It like........  ummmmmmmm........   sucks, OK?

<undereducated troll mode off>




Jeeps but like people use those things :lol
Title: Re: c-47 carry vehicles
Post by: VonMessa on May 25, 2010, 01:50:51 PM



Jeeps but like people use those things :lol

So you have done some airborne training and have extricated a jeep, dropped via parachute, from the sand with an E-Tool?

Interesting............   :noid
Title: Re: c-47 carry vehicles
Post by: Devonai on May 25, 2010, 03:22:08 PM
Do you think all airdropped cargo floats gently to the ground like the power-ups from Contra?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORp9eJEoMpQ
Title: Re: c-47 carry vehicles
Post by: Rino on May 25, 2010, 04:05:54 PM
So you have done some airborne training and have extricated a jeep, dropped via parachute, from the sand with an E-Tool?

Interesting............   :noid
 

     It does sound pretty bad, but not as interesting as watching a front loader break free from the pallet and
roll around the LZ.  Wish I could find that film of paradrop mishaps.
Title: Re: c-47 carry vehicles
Post by: AWwrgwy on May 26, 2010, 12:48:39 AM
 

     It does sound pretty bad, but not as interesting as watching a front loader break free from the pallet and
roll around the LZ.  Wish I could find that film of paradrop mishaps.

It's in this one, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrlU-vXC4BA&feature=related (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrlU-vXC4BA&feature=related), twice.

 :x


wrongway
Title: Re: c-47 carry vehicles
Post by: VonMessa on May 26, 2010, 02:37:39 AM
Looks about right  :rofl
Title: Re: c-47 carry vehicles
Post by: bagrat on May 28, 2010, 01:03:21 PM
lol why? when has anyone ever been like "oh man were getting tore apart call someone to fly in a jeep from 2 sectors away so we can win this war!",
Title: Re: c-47 carry vehicles
Post by: Nemisis on May 28, 2010, 01:29:28 PM
Not going to happen, I agree. More likely it will be "oh toejam , call in some A20's!!!!!!". However, it could be used to create a cache of V supplys in an area that isn't as vulnerable to shell fire (like in the little bowls on some of the burms, almost impossible to get a shell in one of those).

But I agree, it will be relatively useless, and mostly used when troops at a Vbase are down, and its too hot for a C-47 to make it in.
Title: Re: c-47 carry vehicles
Post by: THRASH99 on May 29, 2010, 01:09:08 AM
It would be so neet if a c-47 could carry a jeep or tank
:rofl LOL, it would. But this isn't modern warfare were you can up a C-17 and drop some tanks. The only thing I think it should stay with is the troops, vehicle and field supps.  :old: