Assault Craft Unit 2, based at JEB Little Creek-Fort ... equipment or vehicles from ship to shore. Think D-Day landing — and ...

Today, both the Australian and the U.S. landing craft proposals align. With the U.S. Marine Corps wanting up to 35 austere variants of the notional Landing Craft Medium, and the U.S. Navy ...

Naval analyst H I Sutton has published a report in Naval News highlighting the appearance of between three and five new ...

The Tarawa-class LHAs and Wasp-class LHDs provide the Marine Corps with a means of ship-to-shore movement by helicopter in addition to movement by landing craft. Three LHAs -- which have extensive ...

Our engagement area would extend from the beach's exit routes out to the launch points for enemy landing craft, with a plan ...

The Navy’s Medium Landing Ship (LSM) program, previously called the Light Amphibious Warship (LAW) program, envisions ...

Higgins' landing craft made this possible ... In the 1920s, Higgins developed the Eureka boat, a vessel designed for oil work that got the US Navy's attention for its effectiveness in shallow ...

After years of delays procuring its own Medium Landing Ship (LSM) to ferry platoon-size elements of Marines between West ...

A boat that sank in the Sound of Mull last month has been raised from the seabed. The landing craft Julie Anne, operated by Scottish Sea Farms, went down on 4 July near the company's Fiunary ...

This is fascinating news for both China-watchers and island-hopping Marine Corps strategists ... blockading Chinese patrol craft will think twice before approaching to shoulder the vessel or ...