Cost of 'batteries' for Canadian troops (article)

[Sarratt]

From The Toronto Star April 13.

It seems that right now there is no alternative to regular alkaline AA cells.

".......The average infantry soldier on a three-day mission in Kandahar carries up to 40 spare AA batteries. That rises to more than 900 batteries for a platoon, 3,200 for a company and 6,500 for a full battle group of about 1,000 soldiers. The cost of equipping all the 2,800 Canadians soldiers in Afghanistan with enough juice to power their equipment for a standard six-month deployment, approximately 750,000 batteries weighing about 14 tonnes, can run up to $1 million....."
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Full article is here.

(hope I placed this post in the correct area)

 

[ANDREAS FERRARI]

God bless the over 100 Canadian troops who have died in Afghanistan since 9/11.

 

[Black Rose]

Not a bad article, but there is one minor error.

I wonder if the author was thinking about Rayovac when he was writing the article, "rechargeable nickel-metal hybrid".