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Thursday, November 25, 2010
LCAC
Here are some images of Trumpeter's 1/144 scale Japanese/American LCAC Hovercraft.
From Wikipedia "The Landing Craft Air Cushion (LCAC) is a class of air-cushion vehicle (hovercraft) used as landing craft by the United States Navy and the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF). They 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.
Concept design of the present day LCAC began in the early 1970s with the full-scale Amphibious Assault Landing Craft (AALC) test vehicle. During the advanced development stage, two prototypes were built. JEFF A was designed and built by Aerojet General in California, with four rotating ducted propellers. JEFF B was designed and built by Bell Aerospace in New Orleans, Louisiana. JEFF B had two ducted rear propellers similar to the proposed SK-10 which was derived from the previous Bell SK-5 / SR.N5 hovercraft tested in Vietnam. These two craft confirmed the technical feasibility and operational capability that ultimately led to the production of LCAC. JEFF B was selected as the design basis for today’s LCAC.
Six LCAC are in use by the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force. Approval for the sale was given by the United States Government on 8 April 1994. The craft were built by Textron Marine & Land Systems in New Orleans, Louisiana. Purchase of the first craft was included in the FY93 budget, second in FY95, third in FY99 and fifth and sixth in FY00.
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5 comments:
I live really close to the part of Camp Pendleton where the Marines keeps some of these things.
They must be really neat to see.
Fantastic Warren. I also I have made and is the latest to be released in this year ...... maquetasdiego2 a complicated job that I divided them into different modules.
Diego
Gracias Diago - Tengo curiosidad por saber lo que su página web principal de los modelos es.
Do not quite understand the question, I mean what is my home page?, Because then I will say that all five are equally important, although I started with maquetasdiego. I like to publish a model, how it was done and if possible, a biography related ... as the Spirit of Saint Louis, or the Apollo XI mission
Diego
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