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The Patrol Air Cushion Vehicle (PACV), also known as the Air Cushion Vehicle (ACV) in Army and Coast Guard service, was a United States Navy and Army hovercraft used as a patrol boat in marshy and riverine areas during the Vietnam War between 1966 and 1970. Six hovercraft were built, three for the Army and three for the Navy.
Seven SR.N5s were directly sold to Bell; the type was militarised into the Patrol Air Cushion Vehicle (PACV) and adopted by the US military. [6] Japanese conglomerate Mitsubishi also secured its own license to independently build the SR.N5. [7] Construction of the first SR.N5 occurred during 1963; it performed its first flight on 11 April 1964. [7]
2 Patrol air cushion vehicle (PACV) 3 Hydrofoil vessels. Toggle Hydrofoil vessels subsection. 3.1 Patrol craft hydrofoil (PCH) 3.2 Patrol gunboat hydrofoil (PGH)
Navy PACV hovercraft returning to Cat Lo c.1966. In October 1965, the U.S. Navy selected Cat Lo as the base for Swift Boat Squadron 1, Division 103 with 14 Swift Boats to be based there with berthing, messing and basic repair facilities. [2] Dredging to build the base facilities eventually took 3 years and it housed over 600 personnel.
A hovercraft (pl.: hovercraft [1]), also known as an air-cushion vehicle or ACV, [2] is an amphibious craft capable of travelling over land, water, mud, ice, and various other surfaces. Hovercraft use blowers to produce a large volume of air below the hull, or air cushion, that is slightly above atmospheric pressure. The pressure difference ...
The 1987 introduction of Landing Craft Air Cushion (LCAC) — which allowed for over-the-horizon amphibious landings onto a far larger number of beaches — made LSTs obsolete, but they remained with the fleet for another decade because they were the only means by which the hundreds of thousands of gallons of motor vehicle fuel needed by a ...
PACV: Patrol Air Cushion Vehicle, hovercraft that was part of the Brown Water Navy (Vietnam) SP: Section Patrol, used indiscriminately for patrol vessels, mine warfare vessels, and some other types (World War I; retired 1920)
Pages in category "Air-cushion vehicles" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. H. Hovercraft; S.