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·
      11 months 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
        2·
        11 months 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