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Re:Is that ship still stuck? by oAlbe on Thursday March 25, 2021 @08:42PM (#26587582)
Seems to have a max take off weight of 19 tons by the look of it. The heli itself weights about 9 of those tons already, which leaves 10 tons of leeway. Those containers, from what I've read around here, can be well above 30 tons each. So that sounds like a no go. Also, they built only 31 of those helis in total according to wikipedia.
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Re:Is that ship still stuck? by samuell on Friday March 26, 2021 @07:43AM (#26590895)
Aha, OK, I didn't realize the copter itself was included in the 19 tons.

I also saw someone mentioning 40 feet containers weighing up to max 9000 lb (ca 4 tons), but not sure it is a relevant or applicable number.

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Re:Is that ship still stuck? by kmonsen on Thursday March 25, 2021 @08:48PM (#26587619)
And 20k containers. I guess they don't have to offload all of them, but still it is hard to imagine numbers this large.
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