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¶ LCT (Landing Craft, Tank), 100 ft. long, transportable, for tanks, trucks, or troops; ¶ LCM (Landing Craft, Medium), in 50-and 56-ft. lengths, for a bulldozer or medium tank; ¶ LCP (Landing ...
(Tribune News Service) — Austal USA has received a $91 million contract to build three landing craft for the U.S. Navy, adding to a catalog of work lined up for the shipbuilder’s new steel ...
For the U.S. Navy, boats perform missions from mundane maintenance chores such as hull scraping and cleaning overboard ...
As early as 1936 the Navy experimented with tank lighters, and from these tests emerged the LCM (Landing Craft, Mechanized)., a 50-footer which carries a crew of four and a medium tank.
Learn about Rolls-Royce receiving a $167.3 million contract from the U.S. Navy to support the Ship to Shore Connector Program, Landing Craft Air Cushion 100 class craft.
The Australian Army has relied on 15 ageing LCM-8 landing craft for more than five decades, but two new types of domestically built, independent, long-range landing craft will give the army a ...
The "Isaac Peral" S-81 submarine sailing on the surface in a photo taken on June 14. The second submarine of its class, the ...
Assault Craft Unit 2 and Marine Expeditionary Security Force Two operate some of the smaller ships you may see in the waters of Hampton Roads.
Today's soldiers serving with the U.S. Navy and Army use something called the Landing Craft Mechanized 8 (LCM-8).
Landing Craft Mechanized (LCM) 8, assigned to 36 Water Transport Troop, 10 Force Support Battalion, Australian Army, conducts amphibious operations with the forward-deployed amphibious dock ...