An air-cushioned landing craft, also called an LCAC (landing craft, air cushioned), is a modern variation on the amphibious landing boat. The majority... 2 KB (237 words) - 16:54, 25 March 2024 |
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... 7 KB (563 words) - 00:14, 5 May 2023 |
Landing Craft, Air Cushioned Archived 21 December 2007 at the Wayback Machine Landing Craft Infantry (LCI) Assn. (usslci.com) NavSource.org Landing Craft... 48 KB (6,322 words) - 00:19, 27 April 2024 |
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... 10 KB (1,104 words) - 21:05, 3 March 2024 |
amphibious vehicles such as Landing Craft Mechanized (LCM), rigid-hull inflatable boats (RHIB), Landing Craft Air Cushion hovercraft, L-CAC, and the most... 16 KB (1,454 words) - 11:54, 16 April 2024 |
Hovercraft (redirect from Air-cushion vehicle) 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... 70 KB (8,374 words) - 22:52, 20 April 2024 |
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... 36 KB (4,082 words) - 23:12, 3 December 2023 |
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... 10 KB (822 words) - 18:28, 9 February 2023 |
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... 4 KB (277 words) - 14:18, 11 March 2024 |
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... 4 KB (493 words) - 17:33, 29 December 2023 |
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... 10 KB (904 words) - 10:00, 14 October 2022 |
United Kingdom Royal Marines: 4 in service Landing Craft Air Cushion (LCAC) Air Cushioned Landing Craft Builder: United States Displacement: 87.2 tons... 157 KB (18,498 words) - 19:24, 27 April 2024 |
amphibiously transported to shore by Landing Craft Air Cushion (LCAC) at one combat-ready tank per landing craft. The Abrams is also transportable by... 201 KB (21,251 words) - 00:29, 7 May 2024 |
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... 6 KB (328 words) - 06:24, 18 December 2022 |
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)... 5 KB (623 words) - 01:47, 27 December 2017 |
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... 8 KB (667 words) - 20:39, 30 May 2022 |
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... 15 KB (1,850 words) - 15:15, 22 June 2023 |
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... 5 KB (395 words) - 00:20, 6 April 2024 |
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... 12 KB (1,012 words) - 11:09, 19 October 2023 |