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The LCM-8 ("Mike Boat") is a river boat and mechanized landing craft used by the United States Navy and Army during the Vietnam War and subsequent operations. They are currently used by governments and private organizations throughout the world. The acronym stands for "Landing Craft Mechanized, Mark 8".
The landing craft mechanized (LCM) is a military landing craft designed for carrying personnel and vehicles from ship to shore without requiring a pier or other shore-based structure. Multiple different models with varying size, capacity, and power plants were produced starting in 1920.
An Australian Army LCM-8 being positioned on the bow of a Kanimbla class landing platform amphibious. The LCM2000-class craft were intended to also be carried on the bows of these ships. A contract for the craft was signed in July 2002 and construction work began at ADI's facilities at Carrington, New South Wales in February 2003. [7]
The Golfo de Tribugá-class landing craft is an LCU developed by COTECMAR for the Colombian National Navy. The vessel class is also known as BDA ( Spanish : Buque de Desembarco Anfibio ) and an unarmored version for logistical and humanitarian services has also been developed, known as BALC ( Spanish : Buque de Apoyo Logístico y Cabotaje ).
Runnymede-class large landing craft (35 built) MGen. Nathanael Greene-class large coastal tugs (6 built) General Frank S. Besson-class logistics support vessels (8 built) LCM-8 Landing Craft Mechanized - (40 built) The Army has a fleet of approximately 132 watercraft, operated by units of the U.S. Army Transportation Corps. [13]
The Chaland de transport de matériel (CTM) is a French landing craft class, also operated by the navies of Chile, Djibouti, Ivory Coast, Morocco and Senegal. The design is based on the American LCM-8-class landing craft and were initially ordered to support France's nuclear testing in the Pacific. Constructed in two batches, the first batch of ...
Maneuver Support Vessel (Light) or MSV(L) is the US Army's replacement for the Vietnam-era Landing Craft Mechanized 8 (LCM-8 or “Mike Boat”) that had been in service since 1959. Characteristics [ edit ]
The craft the Navy acquired for this task was the ATC, a modified LCM-6. Like its World War II ancestor, it had a large well deck for transporting troops and a drop-down ramp for landing soldiers on a hostile beach. The RVNN had been using LCM variants in its river assault groups for many years, so the craft had a proven track record on the rivers.