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Personal logo Editor in Chief Bill The Editor of TMP Fezian17 Jul 2014 7:23 p.m. PST

The Marine Corps recently tested a prototype for heavy-duty amphibious landing craft that could one-day transport up to three M1A1 Abrams from ship to shore at 20 knots….
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kidbananas17 Jul 2014 8:28 p.m. PST

For some reason it reminds me of a gigantic centipede or millipede.

Privateer4hire18 Jul 2014 12:01 a.m. PST

It's Scuffy the Tugboat's brother!
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chaos0xomega18 Jul 2014 10:19 a.m. PST

1 psf ground pressure is like a tiny insignificant fraction of a humans footfall, thats pretty incredible…

Ron W DuBray19 Jul 2014 7:12 a.m. PST

A full-sized UHAC is projected to be 84 feet long and up to 34 feet high

How do you transport 10 to 20 of them into a war zone to land the tanks???

Personal logo Legion 4 Supporting Member of TMP21 Jul 2014 7:24 a.m. PST

Interesting … I imagine they'd be transported in the well deck of the large transport vessels. That also carrier the current versions of the AAVP-7 Amtracks …

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