FM 10-500-23: Airdrop of Supplies and Equipment-Rigging Communication Control Vehicles

FM 10-500-23 Airdrop of Supplies and Equipment-Rigging Communication Control Vehicles

FM 10-500-23

Airdrop of Supplies and Equipment-Rigging Communication Control Vehicles

Army · FM · Aug 1999 · 153 pages

About

This manual tells and shows how to prepare and rig the Mobile Microwave Landing System (MMLS) which is packed in 11 hard-shell protective cases. The cases are rigged with four 3kw generators and four fuel cans in the beds of an M998 HMMWV truck and an M116A2 3/4-ton trailer. The load is rigged on a 24-foot, type V platform with three G-11 cargo parachutes for low-velocity airdrop from a C-130, C-141, C-5, and C-17. The Standard Intergraded Command Post System (SICPS) and the Common Hardware/Software 2nd Generation Package (CHS-2) are rigged on a 20-foot, type V airdrop platform with three G-11 cargo parachutes for low-velocity airdrop from a C-130, C-141, C-5, and C-17. The M996 CAV is rigged on a 20-foot, type V airdrop platform for low-velocity airdrop from a C-130, C-141, C5, and C-17. The load requires three G-11 cargo parachutes.

DesignationFM 10-500-23

EditionAug 1999

StatusSuperseded

Pages153

FunctionSustainment

CollectionRecent Archive

Public domain (U.S. Government work)

References 7

FM 10-500-2Not in the Vault
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