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Why hovercraft never went mainstream, the brilliant vehicle that burns 3 to 5 times more fuel
Hovercraft look like the perfect vehicle, fast, amphibious, and able to glide from water to land without a dock. This breaks down how the air cushion and skirt actually work, and why fuel use, control ...
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US firm unveils 70,000-lb amphibious war machines to supercharge Marines
The United States is putting a new kind of muscle behind its seaborne forces, fielding 70,000-lb amphibious combat vehicles ...
Marine Alutech's Watercat M9 fast landing craft, based on the Watercat M8 design used by Sweden, Finland, and Germany. (Marine Alutech) Finnish shipyard Marine Alutech Oy Ab has been contracted to ...
The burly, tracked vehicles that shuttled Marine grunts from ships to shore for more than five decades were retired from the service last week, making way for the Corps’ next-generation amphibious ...
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US firm’s powerful 70,000-lb amphibious combat vehicles to bolster Marine Corps’ power
A Virginia-based company is set to deliver dozens of amphibious combat vehicles (ACVs) to ...
The service is considering the ACV-30, an eight-wheel drive amphibious armored vehicle developed by BAE Systems. The United States Marine Corps has retired its fleet of M1 Abrams main battle tanks ...
The Marine Corps is pivoting back to the amphibious and fleet support roles that defined it during World War II. The US Marine Corps is moving on from the long-serving Assault Amphibious Vehicle (AAV) ...
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