Here's some classified information for you (not that secret, but fsck it):
Top speed Abrams tank: >60 MPH
It is the support vehicles that slow it down.
Top speed Nimitz class carrier >55 Knots
They are always the fastest ship in a battle group, and have been known to ditch their pickets and such at the drop of a hat in cases of emergency.
I know a USN Captain that was in a speeding CGN that watched the rooster tail at the end grow higher than the flight deck it was hauling so fast.
I know that air power can't win a war, but it will disable the majority of the opposition before the tanks and troops secure the area. That seems to be the new method of war, and while it costs a fortune (cruise missles for over $1M per pop, for example), it saves US lives.
Is anybody else watching Baghdad burn? If it wasn't raining so hard, I'd be tempted to fire up my charcoal grill and make some burgers. Burgers, beer, and bombs: the new American pastime.
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