How the U.S. Military Is Trying to Cut Its Enormous Energy Appetite
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Fuel economy does matter
During World War II, during the battle of the bulge, the Germans had far superior tanks, but ran out of gas. In fact the German air force had to also severely limit their operations because of NO GAS!
The best tank in the world won't do you any good if it has no fuel to run on.
Back then, the American Jeeps had 4 cylinders engines, light, could go anywhere, and they were good on gas! The oversize hummers are lousy on gas and need to be replaced.
War is about waste, but good logistics requires fuel economy to be a much larger factor in the overall equation than it is right now.
Anti-War atheist cites church investments in "defense"
The pope and other preachers pray for peace, but we never get a good look at church investment portfolios. In the l970's, Martin Larson published a book mentioning some church investments in GE, Lockheed, GD, and other corporations that get tax paid military contracts. I haven't web-peeked yet, but will, to see if any site mentions church investments. Of course, that means churches defend capitalism against socialist governments. So we've had many US military "incursions" into places like anti=capitalist N. Korea, N. Nam, Sandinista Nicaragua, Allende Chile, Castro Cuba, Mossadegh Iran, etc. Some of them are or were "godless." As we know, corporations like having invocations at colleges and before meetings of civil legislatures. A big advance to world peace would be an exposure of church investments, but that day will come..never. Ike waited until just before leaving office before he WARNED against "the military=industrial complex." Even he didn't dare say "the military-industrial church portfolio complex." The article is interesting when it says airplane weight is reduced (by what seem to be trivial removals), but they really work to save fuel.
Severe Ratio problems
I think the writer of the article needs to learn about decimal points. The multiplication and division suffer from factors of 10/100/1000.
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