The two-day shutdown comes at a time of record-breaking extreme heat across the globe, with July poised to be the hottest month in history.

The two-day shutdown comes at a time of record-breaking extreme heat across the globe, with July poised to be the hottest month in history.

    • Dragster39@feddit.de
      1·
      1 year ago

      Aren’t there really any numbers on this? I’d really like to know how aircraft carriers and container ships and other vehicles compare

      • negativeyoda@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        That’s the point. There aren’t any numbers because the military does not allow oversight.

        Look at this shit about the Abrams Tank and consider that armor is a small part of our military

        The M1 Abrams tank has a fuel economy of 0.6 miles per gallon. Variants of the Abrams tank weigh between 60 and 70 tons and are powered by a 1,500-horsepower turbine engine. An armored division of the Army can use as much as 600,000 gallons of fuel a day. A cargo vehicle like the M-1070 semi-trailer (designed to haul tanks) gets approximately 1.2 mpg. The M1 Abrams tank consumes about 60 gallons per hour while traveling long distances and can travel approximately 250-300 miles on a single gas tank.

        This doesn’t even take into account active devastation caused by munitions testing