"Ultra Heavy-Lift Amphibious Connector (UHAC) Tested" Topic
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Editor in Chief Bill | 17 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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kidbananas | 17 Jul 2014 8:28 p.m. PST |
For some reason it reminds me of a gigantic centipede or millipede. |
Privateer4hire | 18 Jul 2014 12:01 a.m. PST |
It's Scuffy the Tugboat's brother! link |
chaos0xomega | 18 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 DuBray | 19 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??? |
Legion 4 | 21 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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