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LARC-V (Lighter, Amphibious Resupply, Cargo, 5 (V) ton), is an aluminium-hulled amphibious cargo vehicle capable of transporting 5 tons. It was developed in the United States during the 1950s, and is used in a variety of auxiliary roles to this day.
In the latter 1940s and throughout the 1950s, while Speir, now project engineer for the Army's Amphibious Warfare Program, worked on "bigger and better" amphibious vehicles such as the "Super Duck", the "Drake", and the mammoth BARC (Barge, Amphibious, Resupply, Cargo), many DUKWs were made surplus and used as rescue vehicles by fire ...
M76 crossing paddy fields. It was designed and built by Pontiac Motor Division in the late 1940s and intended as a replacement for the M29 Weasel.It entered service with the USMC in the early 1950s and many saw action in the Vietnam War.
M59 APC D-cisive. The M59 was an American armored personnel carrier that entered service in the spring of 1954 replacing the M75.It had three key advantages over the M75; it was amphibious, had a lower profile, and was considerably cheaper to produce.
An amphibious vehicle (or simply amphibian) is a vehicle that works both on land and on or under water. Amphibious vehicles include amphibious bicycles, ATVs, cars, buses, trucks, railway vehicles, combat vehicles, and hovercraft. Classic landing craft are not amphibious vehicles as they do not work on land, although they are part of amphibious ...
LARC-LX unloading a smaller, aluminium-hulled LARC-V An M60A2 tank is driven off LARC 60 amphibious cargo vessel during Army exposition PROLOG 1985. Size comparison to a DUKW View of the port side of the LARC-LX at the Lane Motor Museum in Nashville, Tennessee
The GAZ-46, army designation MAV (Russian, малый автомобиль водоплавающий, small floating car), is a Soviet-made light four-wheel drive amphibious military vehicle that entered service in the 1950s and has been used by many Eastern Bloc allied forces since.
BTR-40 – Armoured 4×4 truck (1950s) based on GAZ-63 four wheel drive truck.. BTR-40P – Another name for the BRDM-1.; BTR-40PB – Another name for the BRDM-2.; BTR-50 – Tracked APC (1954) based on the PT-76 amphibious light tank chassis.