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    The Landing Craft Air Cushion (LCAC) is a class of air-cushioned landing craft (hovercraft) used by the United States Navy and the Japan Maritime Self-Defense...
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    An air-cushioned landing craft, also called an LCAC (landing craft, air cushioned), is a modern variation on the amphibious landing boat. The majority...
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    Assault Craft Unit 5 (ACU 5) is the United States Navy's Pacific operating unit for the Landing Craft Air Cushion (LCAC). Headquartered at Marine Corps...
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    modified to allow for the operation of AV-8B Harrier II aircraft and Landing Craft Air Cushion (LCAC) hovercraft, making the Wasp class the first ships specifically...
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    accommodate new Landing Craft Air Cushion (LCAC) for fast troop movement over the beach, and Harrier II (AV-8B) Vertical/Short Take-Off and Landing (V/STOL)...
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    Landing Craft, Air Cushioned Archived 21 December 2007 at the Wayback Machine Landing Craft Infantry (LCI) Assn. (usslci.com) NavSource.org Landing Craft...
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    four additional Griffon 2400 TD Landing Craft Air Cushion (Light) were in service with the Royal Marines. These craft were capable of a 34-knot speed...
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    generation was designed beginning in the 1980's to use hovercraft (Landing Craft Air Cushion (LCAC) specifically), with the result that the numbers and types...
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    The landing craft, tank (LCT) (or tank landing craft, TLC) was an amphibious assault craft for landing tanks on beachheads. They were initially developed...
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    embarking two LCAC air-cushion landing craft plus 20 AAV7A1 amphibious assault vehicles. Its full-length flight deck boasts five marked landing spots for helicopters...
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    houses an armored landing deck for two large CH-47 helicopters. The well dock in the rear of the ship houses the two Landing Craft Air Cushion (LCAC) hovercraft...
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    amphibious vehicles such as Landing Craft Mechanized (LCM), rigid-hull inflatable boats (RHIB), Landing Craft Air Cushion hovercraft, L-CAC, and the most...
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    A hovercraft (pl.: hovercraft), also known as an air-cushion vehicle or ACV, is an amphibious craft capable of travelling over land, water, mud, ice, and...
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    cargo, troops and vehicles are loaded onto landing craft for transit to the beach. The air cushion landing craft can "fly" out of the dry well deck, or the...
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    The Patrol Air Cushion Vehicle (PACV), also known as the Air Cushion Vehicle (ACV) in Army and Coast Guard service, was a United States Navy and Army...
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    Ship-to-Shore Connector (category Landing craft of the United States Navy)
    system proposed by the United States Navy as a replacement for the Landing Craft Air Cushion (LCAC). It will offer an increased capacity to cope with the growing...
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  • Textron Tactical Armoured Patrol Vehicle – for the Canadian Army Landing Craft Air Cushion (LCAC) – for the U.S. Navy Ship-to-Shore Connector 47-foot Motor...
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    LCAC(L) (category Landing craft)
    Landing Craft Air Cushion (Light), or LCAC(L), is a small amphibious hovercraft able to transverse both land and water. Like all amphibious landing craft...
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    The Dyugon-class landing craft, Russian designation Project 21820, is a class of five air-cavity landing craft in service with the Russian Navy. According...
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    540 sq ft) dock which can host four Landing Craft Mechanized (LCM) or two Landing Craft Air Cushion (LCAC), or two Landing Craft Vehicle Personnel (LCVP); and...
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    USS Germantown (LSD-42) (category Whidbey Island-class dock landing ships)
    specifically to operate with Landing Craft Air Cushion (LCAC) vessels. She has the largest capacity for these landing craft (four to five) of any US Navy amphibious...
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  •  United Kingdom Royal Marines: 4 in service Landing Craft Air Cushion (LCAC) Air Cushioned Landing Craft Builder:  United States Displacement: 87.2 tons...
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    amphibiously transported to shore by Landing Craft Air Cushion (LCAC) at one combat-ready tank per landing craft. The Abrams is also transportable by...
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    for the Jeff(A) and Jeff(B) landing craft in the mid-1980s. Jeff(B) was then developed into the Landing Craft Air Cushion. All ships were decommissioned...
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  • Type 724 LCAC (category Landing craft)
    The Type 724 Landing Craft Air-Cushion (LCAC) is the first indigenous air cushion landing craft in operational use with People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN)...
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    USNS John Glenn (category Montford Point-class mobile landing platforms)
    designed primarily to support three military hovercraft (such as the Landing Craft Air Cushion (LCAC)), vehicle staging with a sideport ramp and large mooring...
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    in Honduras. In 1987, Assault Craft Unit FOUR (ACU-4) joined the Naval Beach Group and with the Landing Craft Air Cushion (LCAC), a new over-the-horizon...
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    LHAs that contain a well deck are able to support the use of landing craft, air cushions (LCACs) and other watercraft. Three Tarawa Class LHAs were active...
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    modifications to allow the operation of Harrier jump-jets and Landing Craft Air Cushion hovercraft, and removal of the 5-inch guns and their sponsons...
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    capable of transporting and deploying 16 NH90 or Tiger helicopters, four landing craft, up to 70 vehicles including 13 Leclerc tanks, or a 40-strong Leclerc...
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