For the U.S. Navy, boats perform missions from mundane maintenance chores such as hull scraping and cleaning overboard ...

The contract for this project was inked on December 14th, 2024. According to local reporting, the vessels in questions may be landing craft vessels similar to the M55 Landing Craft Utility also in ...

Japan has launched a new class of landing craft to enable to army to eliminate gaps in its ability to rapidly move equipment and troops to archipelagic areas using amphibious transport vessels. The ...

A new type of landing ship being launched for the JGSDF. (JGSDF) Japan's Naikai Shipbuilding has launched the first ship in a new class of landing craft utility (LCU) vessels that will be used to ...

The report includes one example of a Landing Craft Utility vessel which has been under maintenance since 2018. While the vessel was originally scheduled to be repaired and operational by January ...

A military piper has begun commemorations for the 80th anniversary of D-Day in Normandy by playing a lament at sea at the exact moment of the beach invasion in 1944.

They will come ashore on Landing Craft, Utility boats. More than 300 sailors from the cruiser USS Normandy are also participating in ceremonies to mark the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings ...

About 120 U.S. Marines had been expected to come ashore in Landing Craft, Utility boats at Omaha Beach on Tuesday along with French troops.

October 19, 2013: Russia is building an interesting and innovative class of Dyugon high-speed landing craft (LCU). These are 280 ton boats that can carry 140 tons of cargo or up to 5 armored vehicles ...

Soldiers assigned to the 7th Transportation Brigade (Expeditionary) and sailors attached to the MV Roy P. Benavidez assemble the floating pier off the shore of Gaza in the Mediterranean Sea on ...

A Japanese Maneuver Combat Vehicle offloads from a U.S. Army landing craft, utility (LCU) at Commander, Fleet Activities Sasebo (CFAS), on September 27, 2021.