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Amphibious Ships, Vessels, and Landing Craft

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Jeffry Fontaine:
A place holder for all things related to amphibious operations from the sea to the beach and beyond with the focus on vessels and not vehicles. 

A few links to various landing craft types:

Wikipedia - Landing Craft

Wikipedia - Landing Craft Assault (LCA)

Wikipedia - Landing Craft, Mechanized (LCM)

Wikipedia - Landing Craft, Personnel, Large (LCPL)

Wikipedia - Landing Craft, Vehicle, Personnel (LCVP) aka "the Higgins boat"

Wikipedia - Landing Ship, Tank (LST)

Wikipedia - Landing Craft, Tank (LCT)

Wikipedia - Landing Craft, Utility (LCU)

Wikipedia - Air-Cushioned Landing Craft

Wikipedia - Landing Craft, Air Cushion (LCAC)

Wikipedia - Assault Boat

Wikipedia - Category:Landing craft

Volkodav:
Yes, I like.
 :)

Jeffry Fontaine:
I was a bit stumped when I opened this can of worms.  So many variations on the theme to choose from and soon found myself creating a monster list where normally you would only have one or two links to the subject. 

Woke up this morning thinking about modifying one of my 1:35th scale LCM kits into a diver support boat which is what got me started on this as there was no place to share that idea until now :)

jcf:
Late 60s Bell concept, from JANE'S Surface Skimmer Systems 1967-68.

Volkodav:
The RAN is in the process of retiring their Landing Craft Heavy (LCH), with three gone and three to go. With over 40 years service they have done almost any mission you could imagine from classic amphibious assault to logistics, in shore hydrograghic survey to boarder protection patrols (very slow ones ). Even though old they still do their jobs very well and economically and could be kept in service for a couple of decades longer.

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