Big ass military air cranes. Can probably run 4 or 5 at it around the clock. If they can lift 30 crates off an hour they will have her unloaded in just 666 hours!
Each one of those shipping containers weighs around 30 tons. A Sikorsky, on a good day can maybe lift around 8-9 tons. No way can you airlift those containers. Needs to be done by a sea crane and loaded onto another boat to be offloaded in port.
An empty 20 is 4,000 lbs, an empty 40 about twice that. A M-26 can fly around with 44,000 lbs in tow. That means 75/80% of the load can be air lifted. Any really heavy containers will be at the bottom in any event because that's how they are loaded.
Big ass military air cranes. Can probably run 4 or 5 at it around the clock. If they can lift 30 crates off an hour they will have her unloaded in just 666 hours!
Each one of those shipping containers weighs around 30 tons. A Sikorsky, on a good day can maybe lift around 8-9 tons. No way can you airlift those containers. Needs to be done by a sea crane and loaded onto another boat to be offloaded in port.
An empty 20 is 4,000 lbs, an empty 40 about twice that. A M-26 can fly around with 44,000 lbs in tow. That means 75/80% of the load can be air lifted. Any really heavy containers will be at the bottom in any event because that's how they are loaded.
Same way we underway replenishment (UNREP) ship's at sea. definitely a military operation.
It may be possible for some mi-26 transport helicopters to lift some of the containers.