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Maximum speed. 48 km/h (30 mph), in water 11 km/h (6.8 mph) 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 ...
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 United States Army, Canadian Army and British Army used several LVT models during World ...
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 ...
M107 (175 mm howitzer) M110/A1/A2 (203 mm howitzer) 76 mm Gun Motor Carriage M10 (3"/76 mm gun motor carriage; full-track) 76 mm Gun Motor Carriage M18 Hellcat (76 mm gun motor carriage; full-track) 90 mm Gun Motor Carriage M36 Jackson (90 mm gun motor carriage; full-track) Landing Vehicle Tracked (armored) (LVT (A))1/2/4/5 (amphibious full-track)
These guns were mounted on the below armored vehicles: 75 mm howitzer motor carriage T47 / M8 – M2 / M3 in mount M7. [16] Landing Vehicle Tracked (A)-4 – M3 in mount M7. [17] Landing Vehicle Tracked (A)-5 – M3 in mount M12. [18] In addition, M1 / M1A1 was mated to a number of other vehicles. Only the T30 reached mass production.
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 the US Marine Corps ...
Australia. Since 1993, the Royal Australian Navy has operated four Australian-designed and built landing craft, vehicle and personnel (similar in size and concept to the World War II LCVP) from the landing ship, heavy HMAS Tobruk and replenishment oiler HMAS Success. These aluminum craft were built by Geraldton Boat Builders and can carry up to ...
Soldiers often need amazing vehicles, from tanks to those equipped to build bridges — or become them — or to take out explosives before they can kill. 19 of the Coolest American Military ...