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Landing Vehicle Tracked. LVT (A)-4 amtank at Iwo Jima beach, c. February/March 1945. The Amphibious Vehicle, Tracked (LVT) is an amphibious warfare vehicle and amphibious landing craft, introduced by the United States Navy and United States Marine Corps. (The USN and USMC use "L" to designate Amphibious vessels, also called "L class".)
The Assault Amphibious Vehicle[2][3] (AAV)—official designation AAVP-7A1 (formerly known as Landing Vehicle, Tracked, Personnel-7 abbr. LVTP-7)—is a fully tracked amphibious landing vehicle manufactured by U.S. Combat Systems (previously by United Defense, a former division of FMC Corporation). [4][5] The AAV-P7/A1 is the current amphibious ...
The LVTP-5 (landing vehicle, tracked, personnel 5) is a family of amphibious armored fighting vehicles used by the Philippine Marine Corps, the Republic of China Marine Corps, and, formerly, the United States Marine Corps. It was designed by the BorgWarner company and built by FMC (Food Machinery Corporation) along with a few other companies ...
Commercial Utility Cargo Vehicle M88x, M89x, and M1010 series. M1030M1 Motorcycle. various GME vehicles, to include the John Deere Gator. C-9B Skytrain II VIP passenger. C-12 Huron VIP passenger. UC-35D VIP passenger. C-20G Gulfstream VIP passenger. F-5E/F Tiger II opposing force trainers.
Amphibious warfare. Amphibious warfare is a type of offensive military operation that today uses naval ships to project ground and air power onto a hostile or potentially hostile shore at a designated landing beach. [1] Through history the operations were conducted using ship's boats as the primary method of delivering troops to shore.
The fourth incarnation of the military's Landing Vehicle, Tracked line of amphibious carrier vehicles, the Water Buffalo was designed in 1943 with major upgrades and improvements to its landing ...
Amphibious Training Base (ATB) (USNATB) Advance Amphibious Training Base are United States Armed Forces bases used for the training of amphibious warfare. [1] Starting with World War II, United States Navy began large-scale amphibious assaults of beaches. To train troops in the use of Amphibious warfare ships and Amphibious Combat Vehicles the ...
WWII/Korea LVT Museum. The WWII/Korea LVT Museum is located in a Quonset hut -style building at Camp Del Mar, Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California, near the Assault Amphibian School Battalion Training Command. It houses exhibits on landing vehicles tracked (LVTs) from World War II and the Korean War, including six vintage models used by ...