• humble peat digger
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    3 months ago

    Where is Arial firefighting? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerial_firefighting.

    How come I can find videos of Russian be 200 everywhere, but I’ve never seen anything similar in US?

    I’m confident US has no such planes ( or no good ones) or they are too expensive in US or some bullshit issues like imminent domain preventing them refilling in lakes nearby.

    • @GrumpyDuckling@sh.itjust.works
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      73 months ago

      The fire grew this big due to high winds from the giant winter storm earlier in the week. Winds were too high to use planes/helicopters.

    • @ExhaleSmile@lemmy.world
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      63 months ago

      I’m confident US has no such planes

      This is just peak ignorance. A quick search says the US has 200-300 firefighting planes and even lists 6 different varieties.