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I still have my Air Assault manual which tells how to rig what. This is kind of what I did in the 101st. There was a rig called a yohee device and with it we attached two humvees (not armored) back to back to it. The whole rig was then air mobile by a chinook. If I remember right this was also...

Our howitzers put the chinook to the limit and they were 15,500 lbs. Add a ten man combat crew and a few hundred pounds for the rounds. With high density altitude sometimes it would not haul our gun. In Desert Storm we did most of our lifting at night when it got cooler. During the day we had...