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A Landing Craft Utility (LCU) is a type of boat used by amphibious forces to transport equipment and troops to the shore. They are capable of transporting tracked or wheeled vehicles and troops from amphibious assault ships to beachheads or piers.
The Runnymede-class large landing craft are powered watercraft in the United States Army.They replaced older USN-design landing craft, and are a typical Landing Craft Utility design with a bow ramp and large aft superstructure.
The (NL)LCU, which stands for (Netherlands) Landing Craft Utility, is a Dutch LCU. The Royal Netherlands Navy currently operates five LCU type Mk.II as well as twelve LCVPs for the Marine Corps . (NL)LCU type Mk.I
GRSE signed an agreement for ₹ 2,100 crore (equivalent to ₹ 43 billion or US$520 million in 2023) with the Indian Navy for designing and building eight LCU ships on 28 September 2011 and construction began in September 2012. [5] The last ship of the class was delivered on 31 December 2020 and was commissioned into service on 18 March 2021 ...
Type 271IIIA landing ship medium (LSM) is the latest member of Type 271 series LCU, and it received NATO reporting name Yulü class. The main difference between Type 271IIIA and Type 271III from which Type 271IIIA is developed from is that the displacement of Type 271IIIA when fully loaded has increased by a third to 800 tons, [ 2 ] and hence ...
LCU may refer to: A US Navy hull classification symbol: Landing craft utility (LCU) Largest coding unit , the basic processing unit of the High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) video standard
Talks between the ILA, which represents more than 45,000 dockworkers across the U.S. East and Gulf coast ports, and the employer group are at an impasse over issues related to automation at port ...
The Ship-to-Shore Connector (SSC), also known as the LCAC 100 class, [6] is a system proposed by the United States Navy as a replacement for the Landing Craft Air Cushion (LCAC). [7] It will offer an increased capacity to cope with the growing weight of equipment used by the United States Army and Marine Corps. [ 5 ]