Airdrop!
Car and Driver has a neat and short article about low level cargo delivery systems via C-130s et.al of vehicles and pallet loads. Using the giant G-11B 100-foot diameter chutes, if coupling up to eight of them together, the Air Force can drop a 42,000-pound vehicle/load from 750 feet…at least once.
I have seen a Sheridan – But buried 5ft in mother earth……Someone should use the Mars delivery
Back in my day, the only equipment that was “LAPES” was the M551 Sheridan light tank, the Jeeps (ya, it was long time ago), were still dropped high, sometimes with hilarious results, once we lost a jeep and had to call in a couple of Huey’s to help find it.
It was stuck in the trees off the edge of the drop zone.
Always loved watching a Mass Tac.