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	Landing Craft, Air Cushion - Navy Ships
		The Landing Craft, Air Cushion (LCAC) Transport weapons systems, equipment, cargo and personnel of the assault elements of the Marine Air/Ground Task Force both from ship to shore and across the beach.
		The landing craft air cushion (LCAC) is a high-speed, over-the-beach fully amphibious landing craft capable of carrying a 60-75 ton payload.
		LCAC was developed to satisfy the need for an air cushion landing craft capable of carrying troops, artillery, tanks, combat vehicles, and other major items of combat and combat support equipment across the beach.
	www.fas.org /man/dod-101/sys/ship/lcac.htm (1357 words)

	C-9979 landing craft - Wookieepedia, the Star Wars Wiki
		The massive wings of the landing craft were strong enough to bear even the strongest and heaviest metal alloys, thus making tensor fields essential for the craft.
		Landing craft were always stored in an unloaded condition to prevent structural stress and so that their vehicles could be serviced and repaired.
		During the Invasion of Naboo, the Trade Federation deployed C-9979 landing craft to transport troops to the major cities of Naboo, thus furthering the invasion.
	starwars.wikia.com /wiki/C-9979_landing_craft (602 words)

	Landing Craft: Amphibious Ships: Ships & Equipment: About the Navy: Navy
		The “Gator Navy” is constantly improving Landing Craft, making them faster, stronger and giving them larger storage areas for cargo.
		These specialized, high-speed landing craft travel up to 45 knots (more than 50 mph!) while carrying a very heavy payload (up to 75 tons) and are used to transport troops, tanks, trucks, weapons, cargo and equipment from ship to shore and across the beach.
		These landing craft are responsible for bringing up to 375 tons of tracked and/or wheeled vehicles and troops from the larger assault ships to the beachheads or piers.
	www.navy.com /about/shipsequipment/amphibiousships/landingcraft (249 words)

	[McGazine] LANDING CRAFT (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The development and use of specialized craft for tactical deployment on hostile shores was first undertaken by the Japanese, who in the early 1930s employed the first landing craft with a ramp in the bow to permit the rapid deployment of troops.
		In addition to the basic infantry assault craft, the U.S. Army needed a vessel to transport and land its medium battle tank, and in May 1941 Higgins was asked to produce a tank-landing craft.
		The resulting Landing Craft, Infantry (Large), called the LCI, was a 158-foot vessel with the capacity to carry 200 infantrymen on a 48-hour passage—more than enough time to cross small bodies of water such as the English Channel.
	www.cpmac.com /spip/article.php3?id_article=100365 (629 words)

	Landing Craft - www.canadiansoldiers.com (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Landing Craft are a type of naval vessel used to convey ground troops, vehicles and equipment over water obstacles and land them on potentially hostile shores.
		While landing craft date back to the age of sail (generally consisting of standard small, oar-driven boats as used by larger vessels for other duties), their first widespread use in modern Canadian military history was during the Second World War.
		The Landing Craft, Flak (LCF) was developed in time for six to participate in the Dieppe Raid in Aug 1942; these were LCTs transformed into fire support ships by the addition of two 4-inch guns, or eight 2-lb mortars, or four 20mm Oerlikon anti-aircraft guns.
	www.canadiansoldiers.com /mediawiki-1.5.5/index.php?title=Landing_Craft (2787 words)

	A Landing Craft Egg Drop (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Each unit is ready to test its landing craft.
		Take the landing craft and hold it by the parachute with the bottom of the craft touching the 10dm mark on the stick.
		Recover the craft and make your observations, record your data on the safety of the life form.
	www.iit.edu /~smile/pl9401.html (386 words)

	Photo Album: US Beach Landing Operations, 1943-45 (Part 1)
		The Okinawa landing represented the pinnacle of the amphibious assault in skill and technology, one example of it being the tracked LVTs (Landing Vehicle, Tracked) which, first employed two years earlier at Tarawa, now formed the bulk of the assault force.
		The LCVP (Landing Craft, Vehicle and Personnel), also known as Higgins Boat was used to carry first waves of infantry from ship to shore.
		Landing craft are lead by a larger ship through the fog and smoke towards the yet invisible shore.
	www.ipmsstockholm.org /magazine/2003/06/stuff_eng_photo_us_beach_landings_01.htm (1218 words)

	Type 724 Air Cushion Landing Craft \| Navy \| SinoDefence.com
		Most of these air cushion craft designs were only suitable for use in inland rivers and their performance and capacity were fairly limited.
		The Type 724 air cushion landing craft was the first Chinese-built air cushion craft that has been adopted by the PLA Navy, with around 20~30 examples delivered since the early 1990s.
		The air cushion landing craft allows the troops and material to access soft sandy beaches, swampland, and loose surfaces where conventional landing craft has difficulty to reach.
	www.sinodefence.com /navy/amphibious/type724.asp (411 words)

	Landing Craft Training : 1 Assault Group RM : Royal Marines : Operations and Support : Royal Navy
		They are also taught to crew the Landing Craft Vehicle and Personnel (LCVP) and the Landing Craft Utility (LCU) as well as all the navigation and engineering skills required to be self sufficient when deployed in small groups.
		The student is trained to command a raiding section, coxswain the Landing Craft Vehicle and Personnel and second coxswain the Landing Craft Utility.
		The students are trained to coxswain and command the Landing Craft Utility (LCU) as well as plan and conduct amphibious and riverine operations as a Boat Group Commander.
	www.royal-navy.mod.uk /server.php?show=nav.2670 (555 words)

	Imperial Landing Craft (Site not responding. Last check: )
		As it is the Empire’s primary landing craft, it has to be equipped for combat zones.
		The craft can be converted to a combat-ready cargo ship, which allows it to carry three dozen speeder bikes, or a dozen smaller assault vehicles.
		The armour plating on the landing craft is nearly 25 percent heavier than that of the Lambda.
	www.btinternet.com /~kewsoft/webpage/imperiallandingcraft.htm (538 words)

	USS Landing Craft Infantry National Association Reunion Information.
		Landing Craft Infantry were and are ships designed to deliver fighting troops to a beach quickly.
		Landing craft were 158 feet long and 23 feet 3 inches wide at the middle.
		Landing Craft Support were modified gunships used for close inshore troop support and fighting.
	www.usslci.com /html/aboutlci.html (686 words)

	The LST and Landing Craft Association home page
		The LST and Landing Craft Association was founded in 1987 by Shipmate WJ (Bill) Chalk who was Vice-President from 1989 to 2003.
		There are a number of memorials to the men of the landing ships and craft, some of which are the Association's own.
		A list of books concerning landing craft and ships of WWII, including some written by members of the Association, can be downloaded here.
	www.lstlandingcraftassoc.org /index_nf.shtml (955 words)

	BHC1560 : Landing Craft Mechanized
		This is a highly personal response by a war artist to a factory involved in the war effort.
		It shows the interior of a factory making landing craft and demonstrates a variety of the skills needed to build the craft and the number of men required to do it.
		The landing craft is being built in sections and this notion of segmentation is echoed throughout the painting.
	www.nmm.ac.uk /mag/pages/mnuExplore/PaintingDetail.cfm?letter=l&ID=BHC1560 (213 words)

	Landing Craft (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Many Landing Craft were used by the British Armed Forces for Commando raids and amphibious landings such as D-day.
		They could not carry as many troops as the American landing craft, but they had two engines opposed to one, and was therefore much faster.
		Many Landing Craft Tanks were used throughout the war and they widely varied in shape and size.
	www.geocities.com /britsatwar/landing_craft.html (238 words)

	Mars Exploration Rover Mission: The Mission
		The Rover is held inside the lander with bolts and special nuts that are released after landing with small explosives.
		The petal motors are strong enough that if the two outer petals land on rocks, the middle petal with the rover will be held in place like a bridge above the surface of Mars.
		The middle petal will hold at a level even with the height of the petals resting on rocks, making a straight flat surface throughout the length of the open, flattened lander.
	mars.jpl.nasa.gov /mer/mission/spacecraft_edl_lander.html (705 words)

	Ships for sale, used ship sales, work boats, ferries, tankers - free photo ads - Landing Craft - Apollo Duck
		These Landing Craft are specifically designed to suit YOUR average wave height, YOUR required deck load, YOUR required speed, YOUR required electronics and YOUR preferred engine manufacturer.
		Landing crafts allow you to beach and load or unload cargo without paying any harbour costs and without restrictions on where you can go.
		As landing crafts are often used in construction work, the piers and harbours may not even be built yet where you are planning to operate.
	commercial.apolloduck.com /listings.phtml?cid=12 (1239 words)

	Landing Craft, Air Cushioned - LCAC
		It is used to transport weapons systems, equipment, cargo and personnel from ship to shore and across the beach.
		The air cushion allows this vehicle to reach more than 70 percent of the world's coastline compared to only 17% with conventional landing craft.
		The largest deployment of LCAC took place in January 1991 with four detachments consisting of eleven craft reporting for duty in the Persian Gulf in support of Operation Desert Storm.
	www.united-states-navy.com /ships/lcac.htm (792 words)

	Landing Craft (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Landing Craft Air Cushion (LCAC) emphasizes speed and mobility.
		The Utility Landing Craft (LCU) employs a unique "drive-through" configuration for rapid loading and unloading.
		Currently, we have limited artwork depicting landing craft or vehicles in action.
	www.usmilitaryart.com /lc_vehicles.htm (152 words)

	LC-20 Landing Craft (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Measuring 36 meters long and 10.2 meters wide, and massing roughly 370 ton, the landing craft is one of the largest vessels to be classed as a small craft.
		The craft is also equipped with a small auxiliary propulsion system using jets of water to propel it at speeds of up to ten knots when sitting in calm seas.
		The craft is equiped with a single jack turret with enough internal space to mount twin lasers, or a particle beam weapon, with room to spare.
	members.cnetech.com /kevinc/2300ad/lc20.htm (2994 words)

	The US Navy -- Fact File
		Landing craft are used by amphibious forces to transport equipment and troops to the shore.
		Landing craft are capable of transporting tracked or wheeled vehicles and troops from amphibious assault ships to beachheads or piers.
		The craft are carried aboard amphibious assault ships to the objective area.
	www.navy.mil /navydata/fact_display.asp?cid=4200&tid=1600&ct=4 (202 words)

	Naval Technology - LPD(R) Albion Class - Landing Platform Dock
		Flooding of the docking area is achieved by ballasting the stern of the ship, allowing the landing craft to float.
		The LPD is equipped with a new design of roll-on, roll-off landing craft, the LCU Mk 10, which means that land vehicles are forward facing for disembarking.
		Each Landing Platform Dock operates eight landing craft, four of which are able to transport and land main battle tanks.
	www.naval-technology.com /projects/lpd/index.html (978 words)

	Happy landing: craft descends onto Eros - Brief Article Science News - Find Articles
		During its descent, the craft's camera recorded close-ups of an asteroid that were 10 times as sharp as any previously taken.
		Indeed, the craft was never designed to land on Eros, and researchers expected it to be crippled by the impact when it hit just outside a saddle-shaped crater called Himeros.
		The landing proved so gentle that researchers initially considered another history-making maneuver: Using NEAR's remaining fuel to lift the craft briefly a few hundred meters off the asteroid and take the first image showing the impact of a spacecraft on the surface of a space rock.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1200/is_7_159/ai_71191552 (440 words)

	COMBINEDOPS LCTs
		For many of the craft that were stood off the Normandy beaches that summer morning, the journey across the English Channel had been long and arduous.
		Its height was such that when the LCT approached the beach, the tanks mounted on the ramp, were able to fire over the bows, thus, hopefully, forcing defenders on the beaches to keep their heads down.
		Sub-Lieutenant Bain’s craft was hit by a mine, but although it made some water, they carried on and got all their tanks ashore.
	www.combinedops.com /LCT_PAGE.htm (6092 words)

	The US Navy -- Fact File
		Air cushion craft for transporting, ship-to-shore and across the beach, personnel, weapons, equipment, and cargo of the assault elements of the Marine Air-Ground Task Force.
		Air cushion technology allows this vehicle to reach more than 70 percent of the world's coastline, while only about 15 percent of that coastline is accessible by conventional landing craft.
		To date three operational craft have been delivered to the Navy in the SLEP configuration.
	www.navy.mil /navydata/fact_display.asp?cid=4200&tid=1500&ct=4 (586 words)

	Landing Craft Unit
		The job of the Landing Craft is to transport troops, and their equipment to the beach from larger Navy ships.
		The Landing Craft Unit that I work on is stationed outside the United States in Sasebo, Japan.
		Several of the young men on the Landing Craft Unit are between 19 and 23 years of age, and had never left home (with the exception of basic training) until now.
	www.radessays.com /link.php?site=re&aff=r2c2&dest=viewpaper.php?request=2169 (275 words)

	LCC - Landing Craft Control
		Most of the DD tanks that were launched toward Omaha Beach sank, some taking crewmen to the floor of the shallow but deadly Bay of the Seine.
		As lead-in navigational craft for landing boats, to mark line of departure, for traffic control, for preliminary hydrographic surveys.
		This steel-hull craft is distinguished by its collapsible antennae and radar.
	www.landingship.com /lcc.htm (174 words)

	Naval Technology - Zubr Class (Pomornik) - Air Cushioned Landing Craft for Amphibious Assault Operations
		The Zubr Air Cushion Landing Craft is built by Almaz Shipbuilding JSC in Saint Petersburg.
		The middle section accommodates the compartment for armoured vehicles to be landed with taxi tracks and loading and unloading ramps.
		The craft has four blowers model NO-10, fitted with axial operating wheels of 2.5m diameter, to generate the air cushion.
	www.naval-technology.com /projects/zubr/index.html (674 words)

	LCVP - Landing Craft, Vehicle, Personnel
		Higgins' uniquely designed craft there could not have been a mass landing of troops and material on European shores or on the beaches of the Pacific islands, at least not without a tremendously higher rate of Allied casualties.
		The LCVP could land a platoon of 36 men with their equipment, or a jeep and 12 men, extract itself quickly, turn around without broaching in the surf, and go back out to get more troops and/or supplies.
		This was critical—any landing craft that could not extract itself would hinder the ability of succeeding waves to reach the beachhead.
	www.ussrankin.org /id41.htm (304 words)

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