I found a site but the text is Russian. There are examples of some LVTUX-2 that have four tracks and are as tall as a city bus! Some are cargo haulers and others fly on hydrofoils I shit you not!
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I going out on a limb here and suggest that the Marines future AMTRAC will be a semi submersible able to travel underwater for some portion of it's insertion on the beach. The LVTP-7 I rode in seem like they were semi submersible at times, who'd a thunk an AMTRAC would leak so badly!
From Pacific Car and Foundry circa 1951, It's not apparent from this video but, as ZD mentioned, it has four tracks to spread the load. The LVHX-2, a separate program, was an FMC project for a hydrofoil LARC type vehicle (done after trials with a hydrofoil DUKW!).
LARC-LX was similarly sized to the LVTUX-2 but wheeled. Global Security . org has an interesting article on the LARCs and the LARC-LX and LARC-V have their own wikipedia entries.
PACCAR only built one of this beast. They probably used the drive train they developed for the T28 Super Heavy Tank from a few years before since they weighed about the same and had four tracks.
I found a site but the text is Russian.
ReplyDeleteThere are examples of some LVTUX-2 that have four tracks and are as tall as a city bus!
Some are cargo haulers and others fly on hydrofoils I shit you not!
CAUTION! My McAfee warned of dangerous downloads for this site.
http://flot.com/publications/books/shelf/landing/4.htm
I going out on a limb here and suggest that the Marines future AMTRAC will be a semi submersible able to travel underwater for some portion of it's insertion on the beach.
ReplyDeleteThe LVTP-7 I rode in seem like they were semi submersible at times, who'd a thunk an AMTRAC would leak so badly!
From Pacific Car and Foundry circa 1951, It's not apparent from this video but, as ZD mentioned, it has four tracks to spread the load. The LVHX-2, a separate program, was an FMC project for a hydrofoil LARC type vehicle (done after trials with a hydrofoil DUKW!).
ReplyDeleteLARC-LX was similarly sized to the LVTUX-2 but wheeled. Global Security . org has an interesting article on the LARCs and the LARC-LX and LARC-V have their own wikipedia entries.
PACCAR only built one of this beast. They probably used the drive train they developed for the T28 Super Heavy Tank from a few years before since they weighed about the same and had four tracks.
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